Apple has been hit with a wide-ranging lawsuit accusing the company of invasively surveilling its employees and illegally restricting what they say ab

Apple Illegally Surveilled and Censored Workers, Employee Lawsuit Says

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2024-12-03 16:00:06

Apple has been hit with a wide-ranging lawsuit accusing the company of invasively surveilling its employees and illegally restricting what they say about their jobs.

The case, first reported by Semafor, was filed Monday in California’s Santa Clara County superior court by Amar Bhakta, who works for Apple as a digital ad tech operations manager.

Bhakta claims that Apple’s policy requiring workers to use Apple computers, phones, and cloud services “subjects its employees to surveillance and forces their patronage through the monetization of employee personal data as a condition of their employment.”

Many Apple employees, including Bhakta, use their personal iPhones and Macs for work, according to the lawsuit, and are required to install an electronic sim card or virtual private network that gives Apple the ability to access any data stored on the device and track their location in real-time.

Apple also requires employees to use its iCloud service and for workers using their personal devices, that means granting the company virtually unrestricted access to their personal clouds, according to the lawsuit. “The data can include email, contacts, reminders, entire photo libraries, internet browsing data, health data, messages, ‘smart home’ data, passwords, apps, files, documents, calendars, notes and backups.”

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