Jakub Karnik About the critical bug that allowed group FaceTime calls to be eavesdropped even on participants who did not answer the call, we they already wrote yesterday and the first lawsuit was not long in coming. A lawyer from Houston sued Apple today, alleging that a conversation with his client was eavesdropped through the service.
The bug was that all you had to do was start a FaceTime video call with anyone from your contact list, swipe up on the screen and choose to add a user. After adding a phone number, a group FaceTime call was started without the caller answering, so the caller could hear the other party immediately.
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The critical flaws were immediately exploited by lawyer Larry Williams II, who sued Apple for eavesdropping on a private conversation between him and his client due to a security flaw. The complaint, which was filed in state court in Houston, alleges significant privacy violations. In addition, the lawyer took an oath of confidentiality, which he most likely violated.
Williams is therefore seeking damages, and he certainly won't be the only one. A number of other lawsuits are aimed at Apple precisely because of the aforementioned error. The Californian giant was allegedly alerted to the compromised security of FaceTime calls already in mid-January and was not even able to respond to it and allegedly did not pay attention to it. Only after the case surfaced did he temporarily block group FaceTime calls.
So far, no one from the higher ranks of Apple has commented on the case, and at the same time, they have not provided any information about how long the service will be turned off.
