Woman Sues Phone Company Over Exposed Affair

[Jazzy]

(May 19) -- Gabriella Nagy says her phone company ruined her life when it made an itemized bill listing calls to her lover available to her husband without her consent.



The 35-year-old Canadian woman is suing Rogers Wireless for $600,000 for invasion of privacy and breach of contract.



I want others to know what a big corporation has done, Nagy told The Vancouver Sun this week. I trusted Rogers with my personal information. We had a contract -- an agreement that put my life right in their hands.



Nagy says her husband discovered the affair in June 2007 after Rogers bundled her cell phone bill together with the account she and her husband shared. Nagy said her cell phone account had been opened solely under her maiden name and claims that Rogers had no right to share the information in the account with her husband, whose name she has not released.



The bottom line is that Rogers terminated my contact without my permission, transferred my services to someone else's name and breached my privacy, she told the Sun. I entrusted them with my personal information.



She says her husband became suspicious when he saw long phone calls made to an unknown number listed on the invoice. When he called the number, the voice on the other line confirmed that he and Nagy had just ended an affair.



Nobody does business this way, and he's not stupid, she told the Toronto Star.



According to the claim, filed in December 2008, the phone company unilaterally terminated its cellular contract with the plaintiff that had been in her maiden name and included it in the husband's account that was under his surname.



Rogers says the couple asked the company to bundle the account. We cannot be responsible for the personal decisions made by our customers, the company said in a statement to London's Daily Telegraph.



The marriage breakup and its effects happened, or alternatively, would in any event have happened, regardless of the form in which the plaintiff and her husband received their invoices, the statement read. Nagy said she lost everything. Her husband left her and the couple's two young children in August 2007.



Since then, Nagy said, she was so depressed she lost her job. And to make matters worse, her former lover was able to access her account and harass her and her husband after the affair ended, she said.



My life is beyond repair, Nagy said this week. It was a mistake, I rectified it and learned from it, but I will carry it for the rest of my life.



Link: http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/a...es-phone-company-over-exposed-affair/19483305

 

[Evil Eye]

The company wasn't supposed to do that for sure but...

 

[Crusader]

I think that is a massive invasion of privacy

 

[Jazzy]

Rogers bundled her cell phone bill together with the account she and her husband shared.



IMO, she did this to herself and you want to cheat then have a seperate account.

 

[McConnaughay]

Hmmm....She has a right to be mad toward them for the cellphone incident to an extent, but stating they ruined her life is just idiotic, there is an old saying, don't do the crime if you can't do the time, don't blame the phone company they didn't have the affair.