Apple faces first lawsuit over FaceTime security flaw

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A couple of days ago we woke up to the news of the FaceTime security flaw that allowed to listen to private conversations of the person who was called by adding the sender to the same call. A bug that had been previously reported to AppleBut apparently it was not given the importance it had.

Once this security flaw was made public, the Cupertino-based company proceeded to disable group calling through FaceTime while releasing a patch to fix this problem. But just as expected, it was a matter of time before the first lawsuits for this security breach began to arrive.

A lawyer from Houston, Texas, claims that he has sued Apple for the FaceTime security flaw, since through these bugs, a third person can listen to a private conversation with a client. According to the lawsuit, that the microphone eavesdrop it is a significant violation of user privacy.

According to Larry Williams, the attorney who filed the lawsuit against Apple, They listened to him as he took a client's affidavit. Williams is seeking financial compensation, in addition to prominence.

First of all, keep in mind that This security breach was only known to the people who became aware of this failure, failure that they tried to report to Apple without success, as I mentioned above. No information related to this security problem has been published in any other medium, so it is very unlikely that this lawyer could have been spied on, making use of this FaceTime bug.

It looks like this will be the first of many other cases in which Apple is accused due to the security breach that exposed the privacy of the user without ever realizing it.


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