iPhone App Records Your Phone Number

Now here’s something you don’t see everyday regarding Apple’s iPhone. It seems that Storm8, the developer of iPhone games like “Vampires Live” and “iMobsters”, is going to be at the receiving end of a potential class-action lawsuit. The suit alleges that Storm8 created the games with a “feature” that automatically sends the phone number of each host iPhone to the developer. A Washington resident Michael Turner is suing on grounds that this is in violation of both the federal computer fraud and abuse act and also California state law, and he’s also busy pushing to turn it into a class-action suit, ouch. Maybe putting that kind of code into your app isn’t all that smart. What would you do if you found this out?