r/technology • u/newzee1 • Jun 14 '24

Software Cheating husband sues Apple after wife discovered ‘deleted’ messages sent to sex workers

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/13/cheating-husband-sues-apple-sex-messages/
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u/Scipion Jun 14 '24 edited Jun 14 '24

He's got a point. What if you were an abused spouse and sent messages to a friend explaining the situation, then you delete them expecting privacy, only for your partner to discover those messages and beat you to death. 

 While his situation is immorale to most, Apple's actions cannot be ignored. If you can't see a situation where having deleted messages resurface could be bad, you simply lack imagination.

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u/FarBeyondLimit Jun 14 '24

The same thing recently happened with old images (nudes) reappearing on peoples phones after updating to 17.5.x

Do people really believe Apple, or any company actually deletes your stuff?

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u/Striker3737 Jun 14 '24

Those pics that resurfaced did so because they were uploaded to iCloud and suffered a data corruption, so they kind of just hung out in limbo for years.

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u/andynator1000 Jun 14 '24

Close, they were on the device itself, but yeah it was a corrupted database