Should Apple Pay For The Bad Deeds Of Its App Makers?

Mon, 03/19/2012 - 09:30 EDT - The Curious Capitalist

A sprawling lawsuit filed in Texas this week targets Path, Instagram, Facebook and others for instructing their apps to suck up user address book data without permission. But the most interesting part of the case may be Apple’s role in the affair and whether it had a legal duty to police the app makers. The [...]

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