A French adulterous businessman is seeking damages of up to €45m(approx. $48m) from Uber over wife’s discovery of his extra-marital trips, The Guardian reports.
The man who is from southern France’s Riviera area says despite the log-off function in the application, it continued sending updates to his wife’s phone which he had used to request a driver. The app revealed his travel history and arousing suspicions about his lover, Le Figaro newspaper said. The couple has since divorced.
“My client was the victim of a bug in an application,” his lawyer David-André Darmon told AFP after the case was lodged at a court in Grasse in south-east France.
“There’s a function to disconnect but the session was not disconnected and the bug has caused him problems in his private life,” Darmon added.
He declined to comment on claims in Le Figaro that he had sought damages of €45m, saying only that his client “wished to remain discreet and retain his anonymity”.
The newspaper said the bug in the Uber software was not a one-off case and had been experienced by other users.
Uber told Agence France-Presse in a statement that it would not comment on the case underway but that the best possible protection of clients’ personal details was a priority.
