ABC News reported last month that a husband used a new iPhone App, “Find My Friends,” which is included with the new iPhone 4s and operating system (iOS5), to catch his wife cheating on him with another man.
The article notes that the veracity of the story was not verified. In it, the husband claims he loaded the app, “Find My Friends,” to his wife’s iPhone without her knowledge or consent. The application uses the iPhone’s built-in Global Positioning System to broadcast its location to a selected group of friends. By enabling the GPS broadcast without his wife’s knowledge or consent, had he been in North Carolina, it could conceivably be a breach of privacy actionable under tort law (although there are no current appellate cases on this issue in North Carolina).
We expect these type of technology issues — especially whether it is an invasion of privacy — to become more prevalent in family law cases over the next few years.
Read the full story at Yahoo News [1].