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bristow84 t1_j6myasn wrote

Alright, I'll give companies shit for things that are their fault but this one is not Apple's fault.

This is purely the fault of IT Departments that don't have proper policies and MDM in place for employees to prevent this from happening. It's also the fault of organizations that don't have proper offboarding procedures to remove these kinds of accounts from devices as well.

If companies are not stopping workers from entering their own personal iCloud details onto work devices, then all the devices ending up in landfills/being recycled are because of them, not Apple.

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HaiKarate t1_j6n831n wrote

Wiping the drives of decommissioned laptops and PCs is an extremely LOW priority for large enterprise IT departments. Not only have those units been depreciated on their corporate taxes, but also spending hours cleaning them up to resell for pennies on the dollar is hardly worth it to a company making billions of dollars.

Apple has been dealing with corporate IT for over 4 decades and is fully aware of this process. Apple even has their own large enterprise IT department, and experiences this, too.

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SomeRandomPerson66 t1_j6nhp9m wrote

I work for a company that's has about 350 employees. And IT has 8 employees including me. We repalce between 70 to 100 laptops every year around fall time. I haven been with the company for 2 years and seen it twice.

New laptop are ordered. Joined to our Microsoft intune program. Given to users. Old laptop taken from them.

Once the old laptops are backin the hands of IT. Remove/delete them from our Microsoft intune program, mark them as retired in our inventory system and toss them in a electronic relying bin that's picked up by a company and they wipe/provides certification of data distribution.

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vanhalenbr t1_j6pazjl wrote

Apple MDM has a way to allow secure and quick wipe. Because if set the MDM to ecrypt data you can just erase the header and that’s it. Even if you recover the data it’s encrypted and the key is erased from the Secure Enclave

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