Tech giant Apple pays a multimillion-dollar settlement to a woman who sent her iPhone in for repairs. Pegatron repair techs posted 10 explicit images online of a woman “in various stages of undress.” And they also put a sex video from the woman’s iPhone on her Facebook account.
The New York Post reports that in 2016 the Oregon woman had her private images and video posted by the Apple contractors. The photos were reportedly posted to look like the victim was sharing them on social media. She took them down when her friends warned her that they were public.
Apple settlement for invasion of privacy
Apple has settled invasion of privacy cases in the past.
The woman, a 21- year-old college student in 2016, took her phone for repairs. It ended up being sent to a Sacramento facility operated by Pegatron, a Taiwanese company.
The name of the victim remains confidential under the terms of the settlement. Provisions also block any discussion of the case or the settlement amount paid to the victim.
