Cheating Frenchman sues Uber for tipping off wife about affair

A specialist in southern France is suing ride-hailing organization Uber over his significant other's disclosure of rides he took to see his mate, his legal advisor said.

The man says he once asked for a Uber driver from his significant other's telephone.

In spite of logging off, the application kept on sending notices to her iPhone thereafter, uncovering his travel history and stimulating her doubts.

The couple have since separated. The claim is supposedly worth up to €45m ($48m; £38m).

"My customer was the casualty of a bug in an application," his attorney David-André Darmon revealed to AFP news office after the case was stopped at a court in Grasse.

"The bug has created him issues in his private life," Mr Darmon included.

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The attorney did not remark on a report in Le Figaro daily paper that the claim was worth up to €45m, saying just that his customer wished to stay tactful and unknown.

Different clients had additionally experienced the Uber programming bug, Le Figaro said.

The daily paper completed its own particular test by signing all through Uber on one iPhone and after that signing in on another and requesting a driver. The application then sent screen warnings about the request to both telephones.

The glitch influenced iPhones before a product overhaul in December, the daily paper said. Android telephones did not seem, by all accounts, to be influenced.

Uber said it would not remark working on this issue but rather included that the most ideal security of customers' close to home points of interest was a need.