Apple May Face Suit Over Search for Unreleased iPhone

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The guy that had his house searched by Apple employees pretending to be cops may file suit against company. May? May? Holy crap man, you don't get a better case than this if you want to sue. :eek:

David Monroe, an attorney in San Francisco, told CNET this evening that he is considering filing a lawsuit against Apple, but, for now, is still investigating what happened. Based on what he's learned so far, Monroe said, the actions of Apple security personnel and San Francisco police are "outrageous." Apple declined to comment for this article.
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Here is a pic of some of Apple's lawyers..

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Sue Apple at your own peril. Apple did have the police/Stormtroopers with them when they searched the house.
 
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I thought there were actual police with them, not Apple employees pretending to be police.
 
Are we forgetting this guy was guilty of taking the phone home in the first place? They don't just go to random people's homes and look for missing iPhones. I'm not a fan of Apple but this guy ain't as innocent as he is trying to make out.
 
+1 exactly what Chris wrote. The guys a lawyer he knows the deal. Easier to settle out of court and get a guaranteed pay day than to go to court for the next 20yrs and maybe get a couple of dollars.
 
plunger said:
Are we forgetting this guy was guilty of taking the phone home in the first place? They don't just go to random people's homes and look for missing iPhones. I'm not a fan of Apple but this guy ain't as innocent as he is trying to make out.
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Certainly seems that way, I mean, what with the proof that he was at the exact same bar, at the exact same time the phone was lost, and the phone's GPS was activated and traced right to his house where he then consented to let Apple look for it. Some people out though really really want to believe Apple was just the outrageously big brother corporation who picked a random person, and conducted a search without even asking - and it isn't nice of you to burst their bubble.
 
isnt it funny that each time one of those prototypes that goes missing, it happens in a bar?
 
plunger said:
Are we forgetting this guy was guilty of taking the phone home in the first place?
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Bullshit. Show me a link where this guy was found guilty. I don't believe they even found any evidence at all.

The only thing you have to go on is Apple's word. The word of a dishonest company that posed as police to conduct an illegal search.
 
Ualdayan said:
Certainly seems that way, I mean, what with the proof that he was at the exact same bar, at the exact same time the phone was lost, and the phone's GPS was activated and traced right to his house where he then consented to let Apple look for it. Some people out though really really want to believe Apple was just the outrageously big brother corporation who picked a random person, and conducted a search without even asking - and it isn't nice of you to burst their bubble.
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If you can point to me the legal standing apple has to impersonate law enforcement and search a home wihtout a warant please go ahead and do so...

....after you're done sucking corporate dick.
 
Oh puhlezz...this guy has guilty written all over him. No way is this going to go to court. They already have a gps trail from the restaurant to his casa lol.
 
ianken said:
If you can point to me the legal standing apple has to impersonate law enforcement and search a home wihtout a warant please go ahead and do so...

....after you're done sucking corporate dick.
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If you can point me to any evidence whatsoever that they impersonated law enforcement. Heck, the Apple guy even left his contact information! Plus, anybody can come in your home if you tell them they can. It isn't an illegal search when you tell somebody 'Sure, you can come in.' which this guy has already admitted he did. You don't need a warrant either when somebody tells you that you can come in and look.

You're trying to make it sound like an Apple employee went out, rented a costume, got a fake badge, then busted down this poor innocent guy's door who was randomly picked, and turned his place upside down while insisting he was a cop. In reality a guy went out there, asked if this guy was at that bar the night before, yes, asked if they could look inside for the phone because it's GPS showed it squarely in the house, the guy said yes, they didn't find it so the Apple guy left his contact information and an offer for Apple to buy it if it 'turned up'.
 
From what I remember reading, the search was conducted under the pretense that all those involved were officers. There was no police report ever filed for theft of the phone or for the investigation, no warrant issued, and no officers or detectives officially assigned. Everything was done off the books by the SFPD. They only admitted to being there after the news leaked out on the net.

Letting police in to do a search vs letting in some apple employees to do a search are very different things.
 
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/09/lost_iphone_5_apple.php

"In an interview with SF Weekly last night, Calderón told us that six badge-wearing visitors came to his home in July to inquire about the phone. Calderón said none of them acknowledged being employed by Apple, and one of them offered him $300, and a promise that the owner of the phone would not press charges, if he would return the device."

"When they came to my house, they said they were SFPD," Calderón said. "I thought they were SFPD. That's why I let them in." He said he would not have permitted the search if he had been aware the two people conducting it were not actually police officers.
 
Technically the two Apply employees were not lying when they said they were WITH the SFPD because they actually were with them at the time as in they were escorted there with them. :D
 
Sorry Folks, it doesn't matter if the guy was innocent, guilty, a good samaritan or a creep looking for a payday. People cannot claim to be police if they are not, its a crime called "impersonating a police officer" and its a felony. You go to jail for it.

Its also illegal for law enforcement to search someones house without a warrant or permission given (which it was, I believe).

If either of these things occurred (and given the nasty reputation of Apple it doesn't surprise me) then not only does apple deserve to get sued into the next century the people who did it need a little relax time in the cooler.

I personally find it more than a little disturbing that a company thinks itself above the law. Remember ultimately this is Apple's fault for stupidly losing their own top secret property...again.

I sure as hell would sue, corporations shouldn't get into thinking this type of behavior is acceptable. That's precisely what sunk News of the World.
 
I really don't see him having a case here. He let them come in. I would of told them no warrant then kiss my ass and slammed the door in their face. If you don't call the cops or they don't have a warrant they can keep their ass outside..
 
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