A flaw in the iOS app Uber would have aroused the suspicions of infidelity of his wife and precipitated his divorce. A business man in nice, claimed 45 million euros in compensation to the unicorn* american.
Divorces
This is a case somewhat unusual for Uber, that changes of the recent controversies to which the firm has had to deal with.
Le Figaro reports that a business man of the Côte d’azur accuses Uber technical fault in its iOS application that would have allowed his wife to follow his comings and goings, waking up at the same time a suspicion of infidelity. Now enmeshed in a divorce to several million euros, it assigns the company legal and claims 45 million euros to repair.
A fault-well-indiscreet
Double penalty, it is the businessman himself who shot himself in the foot by wanting to order an Uber with its own account from the iPhone of his wife.
Even logged out of his account, the app continues to send notifications related to the account Uber’s husband on the mobile phone of the wife. It thus had access to the account information of her husband on his orders (the name of the driver, his license plate, or the arrival time). Even without having access to the real-time location or the final destination, the wife could keep track of the orders made by her husband. Enough to raise some doubts about its actual whereabouts.
” Uber did not comment publicly on individual cases, and including one involved in the framework of divorce proceedings between two spouses “, has simply stated the company in le Figaro.
this is A known deficiency
As explained in the newspaper that it wanted “to duplicate the experience described by the complainant” :
” A first iPhone, logged in and then logged out of an account Uber, always receives the same notifications that a second iPhone, which is the start of a command. In this scenario, it is thus possible to know remotely when a user uses the services of drivers and private information related to its support for real-time, without even needing his password. This does not, however, access to more accurate data, such as real-time location or the exact destination. By opening the notification, only the login screen appears.”
If the applications are increasingly cited as a source of evidence in divorce cases – in December 2011, a study revealed that Facebook was cited in 33 % of divorces English -, nothing says that the tribunal de grande instance de Grasse shall receive this technical failure as evidence.
According to Le Figaro, this flaw, which would only apply to iOS versions prior to the update of 15 December, would not be new. The ” tokens “, which are identifiers used by the app to send notifications to a specific device, could be in question. Normally revoked by Uber after disconnecting the account was previously connected, these tokens would continue to be rendered active by the fault technique.
A first hearing will take place next month.
* start-up u.s. having surpassed the billion dollar valuation.
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