Student's nude photos leaked to Facebook by iPhone service centre, Apple now paying her millions of dollars

A settlement in a recent lawsuit required Apple to pay a multi-million-dollar amount as compensation for “severe emotional distress” caused to the individual.

Apple has paid a multi-million-dollar penalty to a student after her under-repair iPhone was used to post explicit photos and videos from her phone on social media. The act was conducted by two repair technicians at an Apple repair facility in California run by Pegatron. The grave privacy violation took place in 2016 when a university student in Oregon had sent her phone to Apple for repair. As the phone was being fixed, two technicians posted 10 photos of the student "in various stages of undress and a sex video” found within the phone onto her Facebook account. The post on Facebook was made in a way that suggested that she uploaded the content herself. The images were removed after the student was informed of the post by her friends.