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<b><i>Online Extra:</b></i> Apple Beats Back Privacy Suit Over iMessage Glitch

By Ross Todd
August 31, 2015

A federal judge in San Jose has refused to certify a class of former Apple customers who claim the company illegally intercepted their text messages as a result of a glitch in its iMessage system.

In'a 28-page order, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh of the Northern District of California ruled last month that it would be “administratively infeasible” to determine who qualified as a class member and concluded that individual questions would eclipse common ones, making class certification inappropriate.

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