iMobsters developer faces a federal lawsuit for collecting and transmitting iPhone numbers

A recent post from BoingBoing has brought it to our attention that the game developer Storm8, responsible for a string of popular multiplayer social games such as iMobsters and Vampires Live, is facing a federal lawsuit filed on Wednesday.

Brought against Storm8 on behalf of iPhone owner Michael Turner, the lawsuit accuses Storm8 of having secretly, "written the software for all its games in such a way that it automatically accesses, collects, and transmits the wireless telephone number of each iPhone user who downloads any Storm8 game.”

This is not the first time the developer, whose games have been downloaded over 20 million times, has been accused of spying on its users.

The most recent complaint highlights that fact only, "very specific and specialized software code" would be able to do this” and goes onto to claim that, "Storm8 has no reason whatsoever to access the wireless phone numbers of the iPhones on which its games are installed."

As yet, Storm8 hasn’t answered inquiries. The full text of the lawsuit can be viewed as a PDF here.