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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge has dismissed a plaintiff's lawsuit against Apple Inc that accused company employees of waiting like "vultures" to spy on her every time she used an Apple laptop to access the Internet.
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Leslie Carr sought to recover $60 million for trauma, which she said kept her from publishing on the Web. She alleged, among other things, that each time she used the laptop to go online, "there would be a mass number of Apple employees waiting greedily like vultures to survey and monitor my life."
But U.S. District Judge Richard Berman said the complaint "fails to state a plausible claim for relief. Where, as here, a complaint is asserting unrealistic and unsupportable claims, a court may dismiss it."
Carr did not return a call seeking comment.
The case is Carr v. Apple Inc, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 09-09777.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel; editing by Carol Bishopric)
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May 19, 2010 11:42pm EDT
I’m guessing she was using a laptop in an Apple retail store. I certainly was unaware that store employees can’t watch to see what “customers” are doing. I’m really surprised that this woman felt that a store laptop was really her own personal computer. I would think she’d be much better off just buying a Mac and take it home to use as a personal computer. Occasionally I do see people in supermarkets eating fruit or opening boxes to “sample” food. I guess those “customers” feel they’re well within their rights to eat as much as they can before leaving the store. Humans certainly know how to stretch their rights.
I’ve heard that people do spend hours on Macs at Apple retail stores to do their work and upload videos or make phone calls and stuff, but taking Apple to court because store employees are checking to see what you’re doing on store computers is really pushing the limits. I say, instant ban for her.
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May 20, 2010 3:27am EDT
Maybe Apple’s not watching. But others are.
Her address is mentioned here:
http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-york/nysdce/1:2009cv09777/355295/1/
There is a picture of the very house where she lives here:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/CLAY_AVENUE_HISTORIC_DISTRICT.pdf (page 31)
Hey, but it’s a nice house. She doesn’t need 50 million. (See the case file, it’s 50, not 60 million)
Conclusion: there is no privacy anymore!
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