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08/10/2007, 2:10pm, EDT
Friday, August 10th
Apple lawsuits: power adapters, receipts
Two new class action lawsuits have been filed against Apple: one regarding the potential for identity theft allegedly set forth by information contained in online store receipts, and the other claiming that Apple's power adapter design infringes upon two patents for a similarly functioning device. AppleInsider reports that two Miami-Dade County citizens, Angely Maria and Todd Narson, have begun a class action suit in a local court that claims Apple has "recklessly disregarded" consumers' rights to have credit or debit card information kept secret under a section of the US federal government's Fair Credit Reporting Act. That act disallows companies to display a customer's credit or debit card's expiration date, as well more than the last five digits of the card's number. The suit alleges that receipts from Apple's online store have shown more information than allowed under the FCRA.
The other suit, filed by a Michigan man, claims that Apple's inclusion of a battery status LED at the end of a notebook recharger overlaps with a previously established patent. The suit calls for Apple to account for lost profits and also pay out triple the awarded damages for patent infringement.
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Remember that these are online receipts, not store receipts. The receipts are not printed out by Apple - if there is a printed version, it's the customer who prints it. Dubious lawsuit, to say the least.
Florida might have some different legislation...
Also, the law about not showing the expiration date. If that really is the law, that is recent. I know that last year or early this year my CC processor for my business was bugging me continually about the CC Number being shown (I had it right but they kept sending out reminders of the law coming into effect) and I asked the people who provide the SW I use (Monetra -- good software and runs on OS X) and they said the law only covered the number, not the expiration date. I updated my templates anyway to not show the date and only the last couple of digits of the number. So all of this is really recent anyways in terms of the law.
Chad
these are people relating their own experiences, not setting up a legal precedent.
doofus.
I don't think a "large statistical representation" is needed here.