Apple engineer says he was fired after refusing to send cust. device IDs to AT&T

An Apple engineer claims he was fired in June 2024 after refusing to send customer device identifiers (serial numbers and IMEIs) to AT&T without proper customer authorization, alleging the company had failed to enforce privacy protections applied to other carriers. The engineer, Toby Boardman, says he reported the practice to his manager and Apple's legal department but was told to "stop being a pain" before being terminated on grounds of poor performance, which he contends was pretextual retaliation. The case raises questions about how Apple handles sensitive customer data in its relationships with major wireless carriers and will proceed to a jury trial in November 2027.