After two members of the official iPhone repair service posted on the Internet photos and videos with sexual content explicitly, that they were on the phone of an American woman, Apple agreed to indemnify her with several million dollars.
The events occurred in 2016, when the young woman, a 21-year-old student at the University of Oregon, sent Apple to repair her iPhone, which had stopped working, which in turn sent it to its contractor Pegatron, one of its repairers. officers, picks up The Telegraph.
According to court documents, two of Pegatron’s repairers at the Sacramento, California facility, they published ten images of the victim in varying degrees of nudity and a sex tape from her Facebook account, in a way that implied that she had shared them herself.
The images of the young woman were only removed after their Facebook contacts saw them and informed the victim of their publication. All of it caused “severe emotional distress” for the woman.
How much will Apple compensate?
Although the exact amount of compensation has not been made public, at the request of the company itself, the agreement between Apple and the affected company has been worth several million dollars.
The girl’s lawyers they had claimed 5 million dollars as compensation for damages.
Apple confirmed the facts to The Telegraph. The company has included a confidentiality clause in the agreement, whereby the victim cannot reveal the details of the agreement, and fired the two responsible repairmen of the publication of the intimate images.
“When we learned of this egregious violation of our policies at one of our vendors in 2016, we took immediate action and have continued to strengthen our vendor protocols ever since,” Apple said in a statement.
With information from Excelsior
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