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Apple, Google, Microsoft, Kodak, RIM: Intellectual Property
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Apple Inc., Google Inc. and other smartphone technology companies may face tougher European Union restrictions on the way they handle user-location data after data privacy watchdogs said the information is private.
Information that could betray the location of devices such as Apple’s iPhones and phones running Google’s Android software must be treated as personal, requiring companies to comply with European Union data protection law, EU privacy officials said in a nonbinding opinion that was published yesterday.