A woman is suing T-Mobile after employees at a company store allegedly violated her privacy by watching a personal intimate video on her phone.

The woman, named in the suit as N.E., was at a T-Mobile store on the Black Horse Pike in Mays Landing on Nov. 18 last year to trade in a damaged smartphone.

She gave an employee access to the iPhone to prep it for data transfer and trade, and started looking around the store for newer models.

N.E. left her AirPods - the wireless headphones that connect to an iPhone - in her ears while the employee was using her phone.

“She started hearing this sound in the background that she couldn’t figure out,” the woman’s lawyer, Christian McOmber, said.

The woman headed back to the register to see two employees huddled around her phone laughing, McOmber said.

The woman went through her photos and videos and replayed them before seeing the preview for an intimate video she made for her fiancee. She played it and heard the sounds she was hearing earlier.

One of the employees, Victor, is a named defendant in the suit. His last name is not listed.

McOmber and N.E. are seeking damages and a commitment from T-Mobile to better monitor employees and stop similar behavior in the future.

“She’s been terrorized by this,” McOmber told NJ Advance Media. “It’s been very traumatizing for her, basically she equates it to digital rape.” Our phones, he added “are really an extension of ourselves and our brain. It’s basically like someone went into your deepest darkest place and took something from you.”

She ran from the store crying and called her fiancee, who tried reporting the incident to T-Mobile’s customer service. A representative on the phone told them the company’s loss prevention and human resources departments would review the incident.

The woman later came back to finish a data transfer to a new phone, with a different employee.

But the couple has not yet heard from the company. A mutual friend of Victor contacted N.E. and told her to drop the case, the suit says.

The website Ars Technica reported that Victor is no longer working at the store.

“I felt worthless because, hello, I’m a human being and this is something that’s very private,” N.E. told the website. “I felt powerless.”

T-Mobile declined to answer questions about the incident, saying the company does not comment on active litigation.

Joe Brandt can be reached at jbrandt@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter@JBrandt_NJ. FindNJ.com on Facebook.

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