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Apple fined over iPhone location data

Admire Moyo
By Admire Moyo, ITWeb news editor.
Johannesburg, 04 Aug 2011

Apple fined over iPhone location data

South Korea's telecommunications regulator fined Apple three million won, or about $2 800, for allegedly collecting the location data of iPhone users in the country, as concerns increase worldwide regarding the privacy of mobile users, writes The Wall Street Journal.

The Korea Communications Commission said after a four-month investigation, it found that even if iPhone users disabled location systems on their handsets, Apple collected users' whereabouts from 22 June 2010, through 4 May 2011.

Apple denied it collects the location data of iPhone users. A company spokesman, Steve Park, declined to say whether Apple would agree to pay the fine.

France legalises 30 000 banned sites

French Internet authorities have been swamped by demands for domain names since a new law authorised the use of around 30 000 previously banned Web site addresses such as 'islam.fr' and 'internet.fr', according to AFP.

The decree authorising the new law was published yesterday, and French authorities say they now have to deal with over 6 000 requests that have been made since the law was passed a month ago.

France's constitutional court in October ruled the 2004 law banning the use of the French words for such terms as xenophobia, Satan, mosque, slave, Jew, brothel, church, cannabis and business was unconstitutional.

First .xxx site goes live

The first porn site to use a .xxx Web address has gone live, and domain manager ICM Registry has revealed another way to make Internet 'perving' a 'safer' experience, according to The Register.

Casting.xxx started doing its bit to feed the world's appetite for “adult entertainment” on Tuesday night.

While ICM has had a corporate site online at about.xxx for a few months, casting.xxx is the first actual porn site to use an .xxx domain name.

US charges 72 for child porn

The US has charged 72 people it alleges were part of a global child pornography network used to share photos and videos of sexual abuse, notes the BBC.

Announcing charges after 20 months of Operation Delego, senior US officials said 600 users of a site known as 'Dreamboard' had been investigated.

Attorney general Eric Holder said some images on the site showed the abuse of infants and young children.

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