The Electronic Privacy Information Center has called on a federal court to reopen the case against CNN’s mobile app, maintaining that its use of an iPhone's Media Access Control address is more invasive than accessing a user’s name, MediaPost reports. "For example, the name 'Ryan Perry' is insufficient on its own to identify which of the 425 Ryan Perrys in the United States brought this lawsuit," EPIC said in a friend-of-the-court brief. "But a unique, persistent identifier such as a device’s MAC address is a much better identifier than a name." EPIC further contended that U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross, who dismissed the case in April, incorrectly deemed plaintiff Ryan Perry as “not a consumer” of the app’s videos, the report adds.
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