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Apple Agrees to Multimillion-Dollar Settlement After iPhone Repair Technicians Post Customer's Private Photos Online
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Not really, the two former pegatron employees should be up on criminal charges. But for the same reason you lock your car, don’t walk down dark san fransisco alleys alone, or hang out with Hollywood moguls, you don’t leave dick pics on your phone. People are crooks.
brpesudes, it could be a tad embarrassing if you were photo albumins into Apple TV.
OTOH she just had most of her college fees paid.
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Apple: We don’t support right to repair because unauthorized vendors will steal your data.
Also Apple: We can’t allow 3rd party app stores because they will let explicit information come on to iPhones.
Also Apple: Your nudes on Apple devices aren’t yours, they’re ours.
Also Apple: We’ve investigated ourselves and obviously there was no wrong doing.
Also Apple: We can’t allow 3rd party app stores because they will let explicit information come on to iPhones.
Also Apple: Your nudes on Apple devices aren’t yours, they’re ours.
Also Apple: We’ve investigated ourselves and obviously there was no wrong doing.
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Yeah good question. Seems like something like that should be considered a criminal offense though.
Ignorant 21 year old girl
Tbh I've never used the apple repair service as all my gear has been incredibly reliable , nothing in the last 20 years has gone wrong , nothing , and I've had a heck of a lot apple stuff in that time 😂
One of the many reasons I'm more than happy to stay in apples walled garden
One of the many reasons I'm more than happy to stay in apples walled garden
Geez man, you really want to put blame on the girl here?
What kinda question is this? It was her phone, her data, her right to privacy. She didn’t upload anything to any social media or network, and expected privacy. But instead those creepy perverts leaked her explicit content online. That can be extremely damaging to a person. And unfortunately in our society, women tend to face a different type of societal shaming when it comes to being openly sexual compared to men. Like it or not. So I believe her when she says she suffered emotional distress.
I’m surprised no one went to jail over this… it’s extremely creepy, honestly. I mean think about it. It’s one thing to see the photos on the phone, it’s another thing altogether to leak them online.
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Only problem is if your device is dead and won't power on... can't hard reset/wipe it (and if it is a computer, none of them are end-user serviceable anymore so you can't remove the hard drive/SSD to backup data and/or wipe it via other methods).
If Apple's outsourced technicians manage to resurrect such a device then you are at their mercy to protect your privacy.
If Apple's outsourced technicians manage to resurrect such a device then you are at their mercy to protect your privacy.
Exactly, and even if that wasn't the case I still can't believe all the victim blaming in the comments.
So it's fun and something people "get a kick out of" until their photos become public, then it's emotional distress and worth a $5M payday? I can think of a bunch of reasons "Why not"...
They can gladly have my nekkid pics for a million bucks. That woman got the better of the deal. I doubt anyone will even remember those pics in a month as the internet is overflowing with fapper pics. Yes, whoever posted those pics should be prosecuted to the full extent. What were they thinking?
Something to show the grandkids when you're old and gray, to prove you were hot back in the day.
your not a college girl i don't think ur nudes worth that much lol
People back Apple over not wanting right to repair because they suffer from Stockholm Syndrome. However as someone who worked for one of these contractors, it's full of people on min wage who do not care. The work is done poorly, but quickly and done for little cost.... as soon as the time came to leave, I dropped whatever I was doing and just left. I saw loads of disturbing pictures while working there, and I didn't report them to the police... not paid enough to care. I mean one Laptop was full of a woman shagging animals.. but like I said, I was paid £6 an hour lol, not enough to care.
It is wrong for a repair tech to post any customer data. But also, don’t take compromising photos of yourself.
When I had to take my Mac Pro (late 2013) in, I did a full backup, wiped the SSD, and did a clean install before taking it in.
Yeah, it sucked putting everything back on the machine, but all my private personal/work info was protected.
thats the online equivalent of asking „why did she wear this?“
A real gentleman would download to a personal device, take them home, and fap in private.
Yes folks, that's a joke. I in no way condone taking someones private information/data for personal use.
Also good for Apple.
I'm glad (or at least hope) they did the right thing and just paid big. There's no excuse for it, and it's the least they could do.
I'm sure they could have gotten away with paying much less.
I really think the payout was too little it anything. They certainly didn’t overpay.
I guess this is why I am not a lawyer. Seems like the legal case should have been against Pegatron, not apple. Why would Apple even be liable? did they settle because of the "ransomware" nature of the threat "don't give us money or we will sue"? I'm not saying that it was the wrong thing to do, it just seems that they did not have to, so paying was the right thing to do.
Finally, I hope the technicians are serving jail time. Terrible thing they did. Can't get good help now a days
Finally, I hope the technicians are serving jail time. Terrible thing they did. Can't get good help now a days