Apple forced an employee to handover “pics of my boobs”

Discovery is a process in a legal proceeding. Say I think your providing me components that don't meet the spec called for by a contract. When I sue, at a certain point we reach the discovery phase, where you can be required to turn over all your communication about sourcing these materials as well as all communication about me. These orders are generally pretty broad, and the penalty for failing to disclose something (or worse) destroying evidence is high, hence why for example they wouldn't let her delete the pictures.

As usual the best advice in a situation like this is get your own lawyer.

This situation gives a whole new meaning to the term "discovery."

It is an Apple thing because it’s an Apple policy that caused this situation in the first place.

It's very common. In my experience when I was dating probably 30-40% of women did.

I think the risk tradeoffs are worth while. I keep my 2FA token generator on my phone, and the inconvenience of losing that is massive.

I don't know the percent, but it wouldn't surprise me if the answer were "almost all."

For young people (<30) yes. Pretty much everyone. It is normalized because people our age grew up with phones, though I still think its a bad idea.

It’s a thing that happens, but in this case, it’s worse because Apple seems to strongly encourage/insist on merging work and personal accounts.

A cautionary tale to remind everyone that work and personal accounts, hardware and software should never merge under any circumstances.

You're assuming narcissism as the main cause, but it could easily be stuff like "that new weird zit that's just propped up that you can't quite self-examine without taking a picture of". Or tracking weight loss. Or anything really.

As for "leave them on the phone", again you seem to assume explicit intent, but it's more likely to be a bit like leaving your underwear on the floor for a few hours when not expecting guests because you can't be bothered to tidy up just yet.

Then one day a child in the neighbourhood goes missing, SWAT raids your house due to an anonymous tip (likely by the murderer themselves), the press spots your underwear, and next thing you know you're called "The Underwear Killer" in the press.

False. Don't use private equipment for work.

In the thread it's mentioned that Apple apparently asks employees to use the same iCloud account for work and personal use.

One practical reason is for communication with your doctor.

Unlikely, many of us are also not that interesting on a world scale when nude.

And if they all get as quickly and thoroughly debunked as this one, nobody is going to pay attention after a while when someone else attacks Apple again.