Lawsuit against Apple: Employees live in the prison of surveillance!

Lawsuit against Apple: Employees live in the prison of surveillance!

Santa Clara, Kalifornien, USA - Apple is faced with severe allegations that make the company in the headlines. Amar Bhakta, an employee of the tech giant and digital ad tech operations manager, has filed a lawsuit against Apple in California. Reports by oe24.at He accuses the company to promote a corporate culture that enables comprehensive surveillance of its employees. Bhakta is convinced that Apple violates California law by asking it to link private devices with corporate software and thus gain access to personal data such as emails, photos, location data and entire iCloud content.

The internal guidelines that Bhakta denounces in his complaint allow the company to monitor both Apple and non-Apple devices of employees in the workplace and in certain cases also in the home office. Bhakta therefore sees Apple as a "prison" for employees in which they feel under constant observation. He also accuses the company to suppress the freedom of expression of his employees by prohibiting them from talking to their work in public. This contradicts Apple's own rules of conduct, as corporate spokesman Josh Rosenstock explains, who emphasizes that employees have the right to talk about working conditions, so reports t3n.de .

monitoring practices on the test bench

As Heise reports online, the allegations towards Apple are not new, but the current case throws a bright light on the company's practices. The lawsuit states that new employees have to sign a contract when entering the company that requires the right to privacy. In particular, the regulation to use personal iCloud accounts for work creates further concerns. According to the internal guidelines, this could mean that Apple gets access to a variety of personal data that ranges from personal communication to health data.

bhakta and other employees affected describe the atmosphere at Apple as that of a "panopticon" in which constant surveillance penetrates private life and restricts professional potential. If the court comes to the conclusion that Apple has violated labor law, the tech giant threatens sensitive punishments for everyone. This lawsuit could not only have far -reaching consequences for Bhakta, but also for numerous other employees.