Uber has become well versed in battling it out in the court over the very service it provides, but now it is facing the legal challenge of one annoyed Frenchman.
According to the BBC, the man claims that despite his best efforts to hide the fact that he was having an affair from his wife, the Uber app revealed the location of his infidelity on her phone that he booked the cars on.
Despite claiming that he used her iPhone and then logged out of the app to prevent any notifications appearing, he claims a bug within the app meant that the notifications still popped up when he arrived at his lover’s location.
Now divorced, reports from the newspaper Le Figaro claim the man is now looking to file a lawsuit against Uber worth €45m, despite receiving no confirmation of a value from the man’s lawyer, David-André Darmon.
“My client was the victim of a bug in an application,” he said. “There’s a function to disconnect but the session was not disconnected and the bug has caused him problems in his private life.”
Put claim to the test
As part of the report, Le Figaro conducted its own experiment to see if the man’s claim was true that logging out of the app would still notify you when you reached your destination.
As it turns out, there was a glitch within the iPhone build of the app prior to December that would have allowed for this to happen.
However, the same problem does not appear to have occurred on the Android version of the app.
In this case, Uber has not commented on the details of the case, but has said that its users’ personal privacy was one of its highest concerns.
Person using Uber app. Image: Syafiq Adnan/Shutterstock
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