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You know I was thinking that the apple apps that do this kind of tracking could be illegal in the EU.

There are a lot of apps doing this kind of usage tracking and here is an interesting article about another usage tracking system i.e. Phorm:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/business/global/15privacy.html

There are app store apps that have been sending data with UID and personal info to their own servers for no purpose except tracking.
 
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