> Is this really a common thing people do? Take nude photos and leave them in the phone?
> It amazes me that people take photos of themselves naked. They will be leaked eventually.
I mean, I expected victim-blaming here on this site, but to the degree to feign surprise that people use the devices they own and control to live lives that include a sexual dimension is a new level of ridiculousness.
i personally find the claims weird and have never seen it anywhere. my experience is that some employees choose to use company devices as personal devices. or personal accounts as company accounts, etc.
again, the way things are today, i don't expect many apple employees to come forward and tell us the way things are.
All work IM and emails you send are recorded.
Every URL you visit from your work machine is logged using NTLM auth discovered user name.
Think about all that information and what your employer could take out of context.
Keep your work and personal life separate regardless of the company.
Perhaps it’s a new policy, thought I, but that turned out not to be the case either. Both old and new employees routinely kept life at home separate from life at work, because presumably they see the benefits of that.
I’ve got a personal phone, and I’ve got 5 or 6 work phones/I-devices. I’ve got a personal apple-ID which still uses @mac.com, and I’ve got several @icloud.com accounts I use for testing.
Pro-tip: don't take a picture of your tickly parts on a device that is one mis-click away from sharing to your entire team.
And don't freak out when you have to turn over your phone, untouched, if it's required for legal retention. In fact, retention policy is part of the mandatory training -- she knew what might happen with that device, but just ignored it.
The company I work for made it outright clear that while I could unlock my privately owned phone for business access, they would take complete control of it and install monitoring software in order to protect company data. I would have lost any pretense of privacy if I signed up to that without getting myself a second, non-business, phone. I didn't sign up since it just would have reduced my free time even more, but I know plenty of people with separate business and private phones.
The only surprising thing would be if apple wasn't just as upfront about the complete lack of privacy involved with a company phone.
I don't have a strong moral objection to using personal computing devices in that manner, but I think many people are nervous about the risks.
The thing is, if someone has nudes of you on their phone, there's a non-zero chance those nudes will end up on the Internet. Maybe you like your odds, but plenty of people dont.
Damn near every person I've ever met in my age group who has used a smartphone or computer has used it for every aspect of their personal lives to include the sexual parts of their lives. There is an expectation of privacy that average folks have on their devices. It's where they search for their most sensitive medical information, search for relationship advice, watch porn, and explore their curiosities without censorship.
I'm not sure where you are finding these puritan self-censoring non-techies who treat their devices as open books, but I've certainly never met them.
If you have naked pictures of yourself on your corporate phone that’s 100% your fault.
Wow, you (and plenty of other people) seem awfully defensive at the idea that not every social group shares the same norms as the groups you belong to. I wasn't even making a normative claim (or at least not a very strong one) just a personal observation.
I agree that smartphones are intensely personal devices, and that people should have a reasonable expectation of privacy. But there's more to be concerned about than just what corporations or governments can do by following the rules. I would say the average person who doesn't take nudes might be just as concerned about an angry ex, or "hackers", or just accidentally bringing them up while they show someone pictures of their new house (or whatever) as they are about Apple or the USG.
They might not even have a specified threat model, they might just really nervous about the idea of those pictures being shared forever on the internet.
There must thousands of other reasons someone could take nude photos of themselves on devices they assume only them has access to.