Apple paid woman millions after technicians used her iPhone to post explicit videos
by Kari Paul and Amanda Holpuch from Technology | The Guardian on (#5JS44)
Videos uploaded by Apple-approved team falsely appeared to have been shared by Oregon woman herself, filing says
Apple has paid a multi-million dollar settlement to an Oregon woman after iPhone repair technicians uploaded explicit images and videos to the internet from a phone that she sent in for repair.
Legal filings, first reported on by the Telegraph, revealed the unnamed woman sent her iPhone for repair on 14 January 2016 to an Apple-approved repair contractor called Pegatron Technology Service in California. Technicians there then uploaded extremely personal and private material" to the woman's Facebook account and other internet locations, the documents said.
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