Her work phone is pertinent to the investigation, and I'm more curious how she thought it was a good idea to have her personal Pokémon Go and Robinhood accounts on her work phone.
Edit: Incoming downvotes but this will stand — a work phone is not your phone! You should not be trusting it as such, and should not expect personal privacy on it (and the ability to delete things from an investigation). She worked at a tech company that made phones; there's no plea to ignorance here.
Seems pretty useful when you want to fire someone on a technicality /s.
Or do you mean to say that they can detect when an employee tries to sign up for a second account under the same personal info, and so then the sign up fails? If it is this, couldn’t they just obscure their personal info and use a second credit card in the second account? Not a US citizen but it seems unbelievable that Apple could legally compel its employees to use their personal accounts at work.
Apologizing for being the Well Actually Guy, but GitHub's terms of service include the line "One person or legal entity may maintain no more than one free Account". If your employer doesn't provide a work account for you or use Enterprise GitHub, then technically you can only have both a personal and a work account if one of them is paid. My suspicion is that GitHub doesn't go out of their way to enforce this, but it's there.
As far as Apple IDs go, there's absolutely nothing that prevents you from having multiple ones, though, no. I think I've had work Apple IDs in the past. You can also have separate Apple Store accounts and Apple ID accounts (which I do, although that's something of an accident of history in my case). While I've logged into my Apple Store account on a company-owned device so I could use some of my personal applications (ones that would be appropriate for work, for the record), I would absolutely not want to log into my personal Apple ID -- the one that accesses my personal mail, calendar, iCloud Drive, etc. -- on a company-owned device.
So clearly, there can be a delineation of personal vs. corporate entities there if I don't elect, for example, to use my personal Github account versus my work Github accout, which I signed up for using my company email address. If under that scenario, the company cannot claim ownership over my personal email account, then clearly my person is not the same legal entity as my employer and I can keep both free accounts without violating Github's T&C, isn't that correct?
I think a good rule as an employee is "if instructed to hand over your phone as part of an investigation, don't delete stuff before doing so."
Although it's true I could see a generation that grew up on the internet understanding it better than the generation who always use it through a phone.
I would certainly delete personal information if present on said phone, don't want some other corporate freaks to go through my stuff. Fuck it, I would have done it if instead of Apple it had been the Securitate (I'm from Romania, grew up as a kid in the '80s), and come to think of it this advice of "obey your corporate masterlords" is kind of depressing in itself. We don't have to obey.
Well take this moment as a reminder, that is their property you are storing your very private information on and thus it is now their very private information.
Delete it now, dont put any more on
https://www.sbnation.com/platform/amp/2015/7/28/9060211/tom-...
https://www.theverge.com/22648265/apple-employee-privacy-icl...
That's a big fuckin' nope and likely illegal.
> Employees could pause during onboarding and say they want to create a new Apple ID specifically for work or use a different phone. But most do not.
This "Apple forces you to link personal with work" meme keeps coming up but it's evidently not entirely true.
My decision to carry two devices has proved to be a lifesaver during the pandemic wherein boundaries between life and work have been blurred almost to oblivion.
Update: punctuation
Especially if your employer owns the phone or pays the bill.
There was a Twitter tread about how some woman’s photos are now owned by Apple because her phone was involved in some legal action.
It’s hard but keep this stuff separate.
Moreover, who would be stupid enough to trust their work phone for anything personal? I don't even log into my bank accounts on work equipment. I assume all my work equipment is totally compromised with spyware.
People won trials against companies in the past.