NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) – iPhone users are claiming Apple misrepresented the data privacy and security of the devices.
In a class action lawsuit filed July 6 in New York federal court, plaintiffs claimed iMessage and Facetime aren’t as confidential as Apple claimed.
“Apple deceived consumers by failing to disclose a significant security flaw in the Apple iOS software – the operating system for the iPhone – known only to Apple that allowed iMessage correspondence sent by iPhone users and Facetime calls made by iPhone users to be improperly directed to and accessed by third parties,” the lawsuit says.
The lawsuit also names T-Mobile as a defendant for marketing and selling iPhone-compatible SIM cards. The company failed to disclose its practice of recycling phone numbers linked to SIM cards and selling those cards without requiring prior users to disassociate their Apple IDs from the phone numbers.
The law firm pursuing the case is Oved & Oved.