At the risk of making this story sound like one of those annoying local advertisements for personal injury attorneys, here it is: If you or someone you love recently purchased and played an iPhone game from developer Storm8, such as iMobsters or Vampires Live, it appears your phone number may have been collected without your consent. Or, at least, that's what Lynnwood, WA resident Michael Turner is accusing the company of doing in a class action lawsuit he recently filed (BoingBoing, via Joystiq).
According to the lawsuit, Storm8 is accused of exploiting an "electronic backdoor" with the use of "malicious software code" in their games to collect phone numbers without the iPhone owners knowing, and without the authorization of Apple. "Storm8 has written the software for all its games in such a way that it automatically accesses, collects, and transmits the wireless telephone number of each iPhone user who downloads any Storm8 game," the language of the suit claims. "...Storm8, though, has no reason whatsoever to access the wireless phone numbers of the iPhones on which its games are installed."
Storm8 did, apparently, admit to collecting numbers back in August, but they said it was the result of a "bug." The lawsuit, however, claims that only "very specific and specialized software code" could have collected the numbers and attributing it to the result of a bug doesn't hold water.
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