Apple is asking a Delaware bankruptcy court to prohibit RadioShack from selling data that the retailer gathered about customers buying Apple products.
RadioShack filed for bankruptcy in February, asking for a court-supervised sell-off of its $1.2 billion in assets. Among those assets was a database of information pertaining to 117 million RadioShack customers, gleaned from mailing lists and service registrations.
The states of Texas and Tennessee filed objections in March to prevent the sale of this customer information, which includes "consumer names, phone numbers, mailing addresses, e-mail addresses, and, where allowed, activity data,” according to Texas’ objection. The states argued that multiple privacy policies from RadioShack promised users that their personal information would never be sold to a third party.
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