Class Certification Partly Granted In Privacy Suit Over Apple Device Contacts

Mealey's (July 19, 2016, 10:12 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Although a California federal judge on July 15 found the primary proposed class in a dispute over the purported unauthorized sharing of users’ address book information to be too broad to support class certification, he granted certification of a subclass of users of Apple Inc.’s devices who activated a particular application (app) designed by Path Inc. (Marc Opperman, et al. v. Path Inc., et al., No. 3:13-CV-00453, N.D. Calif.; 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 92403)....