Nowadays, a mobile phone is like a personal diary. It is the most private thing a person owns and that is probably why it is protected with so many passwords.?
So, naturally, when a woman found out that some stranger was going through her private picture, she was left fuming.?
This 28-year-old woman named Loise Johnson?caught a mobile phone repair shop worker violating her privacy and scrolling through hundreds of her very personal photos.?
After dropping her handset on the floor last week, she took her iPhone 11 to be fixed.Needing her screen and battery replaced, she agreed to pay ?85 for the phone to be repaired at The Mobile Doctor in Worcester on Saturday.
But when she collected it, she caught a male worker going through all the intimate selfies of her in underwear and bikinis which she had taken for her boyfriend.??
Louise said she grabbed the phone but claims the man snatched it back, scratching her hand in the process. She called the police who attended and confirmed that CCTV showed the man looking through the pictures for 15 minutes. However, they couldn't do anything about it due to a technicality in the law because the man had not downloaded or shared the images.
The worker involved has since been sacked from the mobile shop. The manager also apologised to her and promised that the same incident won't ever happen again.?
Louise explained: "As soon as I walked in, I saw him lock my phone and put it to the side, but I saw my wallpaper, so I knew it was mine."I asked whether my phone was ready, and he told me it would be another hour as someone had to come and finish repairing the frame.?
"But I knew he'd been on my phone, so I asked for it back, swiped up to see my most recent tabs and saw that he was looking through all my photographs from years ago.
"I could see that he'd been looking at them. I felt disgusted and was in total shock, I could not believe what was happening. I snatched the phone off the counter but he grabbed my arm and scratched me really hard. I felt completely violated. It's creepy and perverted to go through someone else's most private pictures without their permission."
This sure was very creepy.?
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