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Judge struggles with where to draw privacy line on uploads of contacts by iPhone apps

By Mike Swift ( January 17, 2015, 02:20 GMT | Insight) -- A federal judge in San Francisco struggled to define whether a smartphone contact list is private property that can be converted into economic gain, and whether Apple’s statements about the privacy of the iPhone misled people whose contact lists were later uploaded by mobile apps.A federal judge in San Francisco struggled on Friday to define whether a smartphone contact list is private property that can be converted into economic gain, and whether Apple’s statements about the privacy of the iPhone misled people whose contact lists were later uploaded by mobile apps....

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