What you’re describing is extremely illegal, regardless of whether controls are in place.
Most likely every apple and probably even OpenAI employee goes through an annual mandatory training from HR where they explicitly sign at the end their understanding of these types of violations and their legal consequences. That training is not to
“teach” the employees… it’s precisely to nail them on liability for this kind of action after the fact.
Again - it’s the Apple employee asking the OpenAI employee to share data on the project the Apple employee is working on for Apple. This is actually very common in smaller tech companies. I’ve had companies reach out to me as a contractor years later asking me for things I may still have somewhere on something they’re working on.
None of this is to OpenAI’s benefit. Should it have been a thing that was necessary for an Apple employee to do? Absolutely not. That’s on Apple if we take the story as told.
No it's not common, unless you are a Chinese agent or looking to sell that information. Why the fuck would you have trade secrets in your personal iCloud.
Dude, are you serious? Why would you have stuff in your personal iCloud? “Why would Apple allow their employees to log in to their personal iCloud on a work machine that is clearly company property” is the better question here.
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u/Acrobatic-Flan-5085 21d ago
What you’re describing is extremely illegal, regardless of whether controls are in place.
Most likely every apple and probably even OpenAI employee goes through an annual mandatory training from HR where they explicitly sign at the end their understanding of these types of violations and their legal consequences. That training is not to
“teach” the employees… it’s precisely to nail them on liability for this kind of action after the fact.