San Francisco, Aug 16 : Apple has reportedly threatened to dismiss an engineer in the field after it was discovered she posted an image on the Chinese short-form video application TikTok with simple iPhone security guidelines. According to an article in The Verge, Apple employee Paris Campbell said she was informed that she violated the company’s “policy by declaring herself to be an Apple employee and posting on Apple-related issues”.
In the report, she was in violation of the company’s policy on social media which advises employees to not post information information about colleagues, customers or personal information online.
“We would like you to be authentic however, you must be respectful in tweets, posts, or other social media communications,” according to the document that the company has internally.
Campbell has 439,000 followers on TikTok.
She replied to an TikTok user, who had lost her iPhone and was then sent threats to send texts.
In a video of a response, Cambel who most recently was repair technician at Apple Retail, said that for the past six years “I’ve worked as a hardware engineer certified by a particular company that loves to talk about fruit”.
“Your phone is useless to them and you’re the sole person who can save them.
I recommend that you don’t,” she posted in the video of her response last week.
The video became viral and racked up 5 million views in about 24 hours.
She was later contacted from a manager who told her to take down the film or she could be subject to discipline “up up to and including termination”.
In the last few days, Campbell posted another video called “dear Apple”, in which she disclosed her identity as an Apple employee.
“I’ve never really declared myself an Apple employee prior to this video.It’s funny, however I’ve reread the policies on social media.there’s no place in it say that I cannot declare myself an Apple employee, but that I shouldn’t be doing it in an unprofessional manner that makes the company appear poor,” she posted.
In the year 2000, Apple terminated two activists for sharing confidential information.
But, Campbell was quoted as declaring that her videos don’t contain any confidential information.
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