A French businessman is suing Uber for 45 million euros, for destroying his marriage.
It seems that he installed the Uber app on his wife's phone, used it once, and then logged out. Later, when using the app on his own phone to arrange tête-à-têtes with his mistress, his wife received Uber notifications, and figured out what was going on. Uber attributes this to a bug in their software specifically related to an older version of iOS.
What do soylentils think generally about the liability of tech companies for bugs in their software? Some say liability is needed to force some responsibility; others say it would be the death of the software industry as we know it.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Thexalon on Sunday February 12 2017, @02:49PM
I worked for a while at one of the largest online greeting card companies in the business, we always got a lot of traffic on Valentine's Day, and my boss told the following war story (confirmed by others who were there):
One Valentine's Day, there was a storm that dropped about 0.5m of snow on the roads, so everybody who happened to be in the office ended up working the customer service phones. They opened up the lines at 9 AM like they were scheduled to, and immediately the phone rang. A guy was calling in a panic, seeing if we could "recall" the e-cards he had sent out. The reason, as it turned out, was that he had swapped the e-cards intended for his wife and his mistress! A great romantic, that one! Of course, we couldn't do anything for him except advise him to find a good lawyer.
Thankfully, that guy wasn't dumb enough to think that we were at fault.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @04:14PM
Charge $$$$ for the service and I'm sure he'll pay :).