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From: Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Employee lawsuit accuses Apple of spying on its workers
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2024 20:47:17 -0000 (UTC)
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badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Chris wrote:
> 
>> What's your opinion? Given you thought it was worthwhile to share. 
> 
> I carry two iPhones precisely for this reason.  One is a company phone
> and the other a personal phone.  Once we were informed company phones
> would be monitored and certain apps would be restricted from being
> installed, I knew it was time to get my own phone.  

If it's genuinely a company phone - i.e. bought and provided by them - then
they're entitled to restrict use as they see fit. 

> My company phone
> has nothing on it except for iOS and Microsoft Office suite.  I also
> have two Apple IDs, a personal and a work one.
> 
> If the Apple employees don't want their personal lives monitored they
> can carry two phones too.  The part of the article which concerns me is
> this and I don't quite understand the reasoning behind it:
> "To evade Apple’s surveillance, employees could use a work-owned device
> and use a separate iCloud account only for work, but the suit says the
> company “actively discourages” work-only iCloud accounts."

I mean it's a suit. Anyone can allege what they want in a suit even things
that don't make sense. I wouldn't put any weight on it.