Apple is threatening to fire an employee over a viral TikTok video

Apple is apparently threatening to terminate an employee who posted a harmless TikTok video with basic iPhone security information. The employee, Paris Campbell, states that she was told by higher-ups that she had breached company policy by identifying herself publicly as an Apple employee and posting about Apple security-related topics.

Campbell has worked for Apple for nearly 6 years as a certified hardware engineer, and she saw an opportunity to help out someone who had lost her iPhone at Coachella and then received threatening text messages saying that her personal information would be sold on the black market unless she removed the iPhone from her Apple ID.    

Campbell made a video response on TikTok telling her not to remove the Apple ID because the scammers can't currently use the phone because it's locked.                

“I can’t tell you exactly how I know this information, but I can tell you that for the last six years, I’ve been a certified hardware engineer for a certain company that likes to talk about fruit,” Campbell then when on to tell the user not to listen to them "as your phone is actually useless to them, and you’re the only person that can save them, and I suggest that you don’t."

The video ended up going viral, hitting 5 million views in just 24 hours. Campbell says that she later received a call from a manager, telling her to remove the video or she’d be subject to disciplinary action “up to and including termination.”

Last year, Apple terminated two high-profile activists for allegedly sharing confidential information. However, Campbell says her videos don’t contain any information that isn’t already publicly available, which means she really isn't violating anything.