Apple employee Amar Bhakta has filed a lawsuit against the company, accusing it of violating the right to privacy of its employees. Apple forces employees to use personal iPhones for work tasks and insists on monitoring them under the pretext of professional activities. This is reported by The Verge.

Apple encourages employees to use their own iPhones for business purposes and to install corporate software on them. According to the company’s policy, all data collected from these devices, including email, photos, videos, notes, and other information, may be inspected by Apple at any time.

Bhakta says that employees who use their personal devices for work are forced to link their personal iCloud accounts to the corporate system. This, he says, allows Apple to access employee location data and other information even after hours.

The lawsuit also alleges that Apple violates California law by forcing employees to agree to a policy that gives the company the right to conduct physical, video, and electronic surveillance of them. This policy also provides for Apple’s ability to conduct searches on both proprietary and third-party devices on “company property,” which can even include an employee’s home if they work remotely.

“For Apple’s employees, the Apple ecosystem is not a walled garden,” the lawsuit says. “It is a prison yard. A panopticon where employees, both on and off duty, are ever subject to Apple’s all-seeing eye.”

Bhakta is also suing Apple over its illegal fines policy and claims that the company suppresses employees’ free speech. The lawsuit mentions instances when Apple prohibited Bhakti from speaking publicly about his experience in digital advertising and forced him to remove information about his work at Apple from his LinkedIn profile.