Apple has just been sued for 5 million dollars for refusing not to recover the data stored by a client on an iPhone that was stolen, and the trial could completely change Cupertino’s policy on these matters.
A technological executive filed a lawsuit against Apple for refusing the company to recover its data and photos after its iPhone.
As reported in The Washington Post, the Executive iPhone Michael Mathews He was stolen after he was attacked by porteristas in Arizona.
After the robbery, the executive lost access to his photos, music, tax declarations and research related to his work.
The lawsuit has been filed in the United States District Court for northern California, and the affected person indicates that the loss of the photos and data of their iPhone constituted «all their digital life.»
The demand is collected that Apple did not do enough to recover its photos and data after the robbery, and nevertheless, He lost his technology consultant because he lost the iPhone data.
Everything has to do with Apple’s recovery key, which is a security function that is part of the Advanced Data Protection system of Cupertino.
This recovery key is a 28 -digit code that allows users to access their account if the password of their Apple ID is forgotten.
According to the plaintiff, the thief agreed to his iPhone, changed the password and created a new recovery key.
Mathews argues that Apple could still help about it, facilitating the user access to all this data, providing a new recovery key.
«Although Mathews can provide substantial and unquestionable evidence that the accounts and data of her Apple accounts are yours, Apple refuses to restore the recovery key or allow you to access your accounts and data,» says the complaint. «In this way, Apple perpetuates and facilitates the criminal activity of hackers.»
It is a case that is in a process of collection of evidence with the trial that is expected to last for at least six and eight months.
«The indefensible thing is that Apple keeps data that does not belong to it,» said K. Jon Breyer, lawyer for Mathews. «That is a question that Apple keeps refusing to answer. What foundation can user data be conserved and not return them?»
Apple did not make concrete comments about this case, But he said the following: «We sympathize with the people who have had this experience and take all attacks on our users very seriously, regardless of how rare they are.»
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