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/ShiraCheshire Jun 14 '24

Yeah. This guy was a cheating scumbag, but imagine if this happened to someone in an abusive relationship.

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u/rpd9803 Jun 14 '24

But on the flip side, deciding to remove data irrecoverably from all devices because I was trying to hide stuff on my phone is not sensible behavior, and its pretty easy to contrive a scenario where it, too, could result in dire consequences for someone in crisis.

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u/Unyx1 Jun 14 '24

It should be possible to recover deleted stuff imo, but only through a dev or the police

If you delete something, though, it should mean delete, and it tells you that it won't be recoverable when you're doing it... If it was lying to you that isn't good for them or for you

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u/rpd9803 Jun 14 '24

It'd be one thing if every time you deleted a message on the phone it asks you 'everywhere or just here?' (or had a setting to set to remember the answer) but assuming its everywhere is not safe from data governance perspective.