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A Texas lawyer is the first to sue Apple over its FaceTime glitch, saying it allowed someone to eavesdrop on a private deposition he was having, according to new reports.

Larry Williams II says the flaw — which allowed callers to hear conversations via FaceTime even before the person picked up — intrudes on the privacy of “one’s most intimate conversations without consent,” CNBC reported Wednesday.

In the complaint filed Monday in Harris County, the Houston-based attorney says he was “undergoing a private deposition with a client when this defective product … allowed for the recording” of the conversation.

It was not clear whether the conversation was actually eavesdropped upon.

Williams is seeking unspecified damages on claims of negligence, product liability, misrepresentation and warranty breach. He says Apple should’ve known about the bug and accuses it of not adequately testing its software.

He says the tech snafu caused him “sustained permanent and continuous injuries, pain and suffering and emotional trauma that will continue into the future” and that he also “lost ability to earn a living.”

The glitch, which affected the iOS 12.1 operating system, would occur when a caller created a conference call on FaceTime, typed in their phone number and added the number of another person.

In a statement, Apple said it’s “aware of the issue and we have identified a fix that will be released in a software update later this week.”

The company issued a temporary fix by disabling the group function on FaceTime.

An Arizona mother and her teenage son warned Apple about the flaw for more than a week before it yanked the software.

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