What exactly is meant by having their personal Apple devices searched?
Searching a backpack for stolen hardware seems somewhat reasonable (although it doesn’t reflect well on their hiring standards) but what right does Apple, champion of privacy, have to search through their employees devices?
Note that it says "personal Apple devices", not smartphones or laptops in general. I think what is probably meant is that they check whether someone for example swapped their old iPhone with a new one from the shop's inventory (maybe by checking serial number, etc.).
Searching a backpack for stolen hardware seems somewhat reasonable (although it doesn’t reflect well on their hiring standards) but what right does Apple, champion of privacy, have to search through their employees devices?