[lnanek2]

Not super surprising. I get constant flak from management just for pointing out bugs in other team's components and offering fixes, due to the negative optics, and it sounds like the author was not only organizing employees to jointly negotiate wages internally, but also talking to the press.

Tech company employees outside the marketing department are generally preferred to not say anything publicly at all. I've helped author a couple official engineering blog posts, but those always go through lawyers and marketing before release. Lots of companies like Google also hire very expensive consultancies to prevent unionizing as well. So she set herself up to battle a company that just needed a legal excuse to get rid of her at that point.

> At the end of my tenure, I was isolated, had my Slack messages surveilled and used against me, learned that Apple had access to my personal iMessages, and received several reports of requests to disparage me and my statements

Hopefully she learned a bit. She complained a lot about her Slack conversations being surveilled, but you should always assume your employer is screen capturing your computer, recording your microphone, keeping your web cam on without your knowledge, and possibly sending your emails and other communications to your manager for reference or even approval before passing them on to the intended recipients. I've seen all these things and been asked to help set some of them up. You've usually given up any right to them not happening on a work computer at some point during new employee onboarding if not sooner.

[jjnoakes]

> You've usually given up any right to them not happening on a work computer at some point during new employee onboarding if not sooner.

Perhaps for anything that happens on the computer itself, but I'd be surprised if this covered using the camera to record the surroundings.

Edit:

> Apple had access to my personal iMessages

It is unclear whether this was personal iMessages on a work device, or on a personal device. The latter would be a problem, of course.

[midasuni]

Sounds massively jurisdiction dependent. I’d be surprised if that kind of computer surveillance was legal in my country, let alone webcam of a private area

[WalterBright]

Anyone using a computer for work should buy and use their own separate computer for non-work activities. It's the ethical thing to do, and besides, is just common sense.

If the company issues you a phone, the same thing applies. Have your own phone for non-work use.