Employee Lawsuit Accuses Apple of Spying on Its Workers (semafor.com)
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- News link: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/12/02/1532249/employee-lawsuit-accuses-apple-of-spying-on-its-workers
- Source link: https://www.semafor.com/article/12/02/2024/employee-lawsuit-accuses-apple-of-spying-on-its-workers
> The suit, filed Sunday evening in California state court, alleges Apple employees are required to give up the right to personal privacy, and that the company says it can "engage in physical, video and electronic surveillance of them" even when they are at home and after they stop working for Apple.
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> Those requirements are part of a long list of Apple employment policies that the suit contends violate California law. The plaintiff in the case, Amar Bhakta, has worked in advertising technology for Apple since 2020. According to the suit, Apple used its privacy policies to harm his employment prospects. For instance, it forbade Bhakta from participating in public speaking about digital advertising and forced him to remove information from his LinkedIn page about his job at Apple.
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As I've said before.... (Score:2)
> [...] even when they are at home and after they stop working for Apple
Like I've said before: if your employer wants to 'own' you 24/hrs a day, then they should pay you triple the standard wage for your position. Though I'm not sure how they could claim any power over you after you stopped working for them. I guess this is where lawsuits come in.
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> if your employer wants to 'own' you 24/hrs a day, then they should pay you triple the standard wage
You are welcome to demand that during the job interview. Good luck.
My "on call" days are past, but when I was younger, I often received bonuses for being available for after-hours emergencies. Loyalty and professionalism are rewarded.
You work for big corp that's what you get (Score:3)
I am hold enough to remember back when IBM workers got HR demerits for wearing shorts in public. On the beach.
If there is a big pile of private information that is accessible to someone, that someone is going to use it unless there are strong measures in place to stop that from happening.
Reminds me of Matt Gaetz, the paragon of virtue somebody thought would be a great AG. He and his little friend were discovered to be searching the DMV data base for girls to hit on. They had access. So they did it. That's typical.
Now imagine a huge financial incentive.
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> If there is a big pile of private information that is accessible to someone, that someone is going to use it unless there are strong measures in place to stop that from happening.
I never did. I worked with many, many others who didn't either. And I worked with a couple who did and got away with it, and a couple who got walked directly out the door when it was discovered they had.
Point is, you CAN trust most people under most circumstances, but you are absolutely stupid to trust ALL people under all ci
Personal iCloud account (Score:2)
Would be very interesting to see if/how Apple manages to break security of allegedly "zero-knowledge-encryption" of personal iCloud accounts to achieve this.
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> Would be very interesting to see if/how Apple manages to break security of allegedly "zero-knowledge-encryption" of personal iCloud accounts to achieve this.
These are allegations made by one disgruntled employee.
You shouldn't give them too much credibility.
Many of the allegations are implausible, and others are about publicly available information, such as his LinkedIn page.