Apple Accused of Spying on Staff While Talking Up Privacy

An Apple employee, Amar Bhakta, has sued the company claiming that it forces staff to give up personal privacy and demands that it be allowed to use surveillance even when they are at home. The lawsuit alleges that for Apple employees 'the Apple ecosystem is not a walled garden but a prison yard' where employees both on and off duty are under Apple's all-seeing eye. Among specific claims in the suit include allegations that Bhakta was forbidden from speaking or engaging with anyone about his job, including preventing him from public speaking at industry events; forced to use only Apple devices for work and encouraged to also use them personally so they could be surveilled all the time