Commentary: A Frenchman is suing Uber for $48 million, after he claims a technical problem with the app informed his wife of his movements.
“He’s gone where? Where?! ”
For better or for worse.
This famous phrase describes our committed relationship with technology.
We go through bad times. A website won’t load, an app keeps crashing. But we stay together, because in each other we see the future.
A businessman from the Côte d’Azur in France, though, believes technology has destroyed his marriage. Specifically, Uber’s technology.
As Le Figaro reports , he claims there was a bug in the Uber app, one that enabled others to view his comings and goings. Actually, it was a very significant other, he says, who knew where he’d been — his wife.
More precisely, his ex-wife. The man claims that he borrowed his then wife’s iPhone and logged into the Uber app.
He says that after he logged off, his Uber activity was still relayed via helpful notifications on her phone.
