Judge slams Apple in privacy suit, says he can no longer take what company says at face value

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Apple’s (AAPL) famous secrecy may have just gotten it into some legal trouble. Bloomberg reports that San Jose-based U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewal has issued a scathing ruling in a privacy suit involving the company in which he questions Apple’s integrity and says that he will no longer take what the company says and face value. At issue is Apple’s alleged refusal to comply with Grewal’s three-month-old order that the company turn over some sensitive documents that Bloomberg says could “reveal inner workings that the company normally goes to great lengths to hide.” The plaintiffs in the privacy suit are accusing Apple of collecting customers’ location data on their iPhones even when they have their geo-location services switched off and

 

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