This week, news emerged that Apple had asked its employees not to leak information to the company. A couple of days later we know that the company also discovered last year 29 employees who were dedicated to leaking information to the press. Furthermore, 12 of them were arrested. All of them lost their jobs, but the company also claims that the consequences can be worse.
Since they could run into trouble finding work elsewhere. What's more, Apple has also warned that they could take legal action and criminal charges against these people. From what you can see the exhaustion of the Cupertino company.
The company has grown tired of the many leaks about its plans and products in the past few months.. Therefore, it seems that they are beginning to take action in this regard. Since the secrecy about their plans and products was one of the keys to Apple historically. But in recent months this has been affected.
As they claim these leaks could end up affecting the sales of these devices. In addition, it also allows Apple's competitors to react more quickly. Something that would cause them to lose their advantage in the market. And this is not something they want.
Apple has commented that they are catching these leakers more and more quickly. So all workers are warned. And that there are also consequences that can be very serious for the careers of these people when they are discovered. So it is quite serious. This has now been publicly revealed. But the Cupertino company He has been meeting with his employees for months asking them to stop leaking information.
Apple isn't the only company alerting its employees to leaks. Other companies in the sector have also joined this type of action. So we see that they are fighting very hard to prevent these leaks. Will they succeed? Time will tell.