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I don't work for Apple or (honestly) know anyone that does, but from at least one news article, I get the impression Apple openly encourages (and maybe even requires) it.

https://www.theverge.com/22648265/apple-employee-privacy-icl...

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> I get the impression Apple openly encourages (and maybe even requires) it.

When I worked at Apple I needed a personal iCloud account to set up my corp MacBook. I simply created a new dummy personal account just for that. Nobody's auditing your iCloud account to make sure it's your "real" personal account or anything.

Yeah about that. That's one of the biggest weirdness in related to Macbooks on a corp environment, why do I need an unrelated account to do basic stuff on an Apple machine

It all depends on how they manage them. You can and should just make a youremail@company.com icloud account. I'm actually surprised that's not the norm so they can take over stuff like activation lock.

I don't use a personal icloud account on my work computer... it's not even allowed lol.

I have a “work personal” Google account for Chrome for similar reasons.

At my last job I used a dummy iCloud account at the system level, but you can log into a separate account for the app store, which was necessary to avoid having to re-buy some apps I depend on.

Just as I was leaving they were in the process of replacing everyone's computer with new ones that were much more locked down.

> I get the impression Apple openly encourages (and maybe even requires) it.

To take nudes?

To store them on a corporate device. Weirdly the requirement originated from the IT department.

Roy Trenneman made that policy and got Jen Barber to unknowingly approve it

Apple encourages it, however, it's not required.

Meta requires you to link your personal meta account with your work identity.

Meta requires you to link a personal account to your work identity. Similar to Apple, they don't check to see if it was created just for the purpose.

Meta also requires in their TOS that you have only one account and that it uses your “real” identity, so you’d be in violation of TOS with your work account.

Meta specifically says during onboarding to not create a work only account.

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