> Is it standard practice at both Apple and OpenAI for employees to use their personal icloud account for work?

This doesn't seem out of line with common practices at other big tech firms. If you go work at Meta, your personal Facebook/Instagram/Whatsapp/Oculus accounts become intrinsically linked to your work login identity (though a few employees created a secondary account on of all those to prevent this).

Although there are better controls than there used to be, it's not all that uncommon for sensitive work data to leak through this linkage into the public products...

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Barbing 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Did employees get official approval to create secondary accounts?

Someone went on Reddit to ask if they really had to use their personal Facebook account to manage the company page as they said their boss pushed back against the idea, saying, “Do you think when Disney manages their Facebook page that Disney marketing execs have to use their personal Facebook accounts?”

And it seemed like the answer may well have been yes. There must be some value to Zuckerberg in tying it all together.

	▲	swiftcoder 21 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> Did employees get official approval to create secondary accounts? Yeah, at orientation they told us it was an option. I don't recall more than a couple of people taking advantage - if you go to work for Meta you've probably made your peace with it already. > “Do you think when Disney manages their Facebook page that Disney marketing execs have to use their personal Facebook accounts?” There are various business portal things that separate a business page from just one user owning them, but you still login to a business page you manage via your personal account, regardless of size of business