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Carmel Resort Lifts Ban on Apple Workers
Three decades after booting out a group of Apple tech workers following a night of alleged wild behavior, La Playa Carmel resort is extending an olive branch to the Cupertino tech titan.
Thirty years is a long time to hold a grudge.
Apparently that’s how the new management at the high-end La Playa Carmel resort feels as it finally lifted a permanent ban this week on Apple workers visiting the resort.
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According to an SFGate report the ban was put in place in 1983 after Apple workers on a retreat engaged in a night of raucous behavior that including skinny-dipping in the hotel pool and a bonfire on a nearby beach.
Meanwhile, CNET reports that the resort issued a simple message to Apple this week:
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Welcome back, Apple: All is Forgiven.
No definite word yet on whether Apple is planning a return to the resort anytime soon.
Voice Data Saved For Two Years
Meanwhile, Apple disclosed this week that it stores user voice data from customers who use its Siri and Dictation services for up to two years.
According to a report on ZDNet the company acknowledged the practice after a civil liberties group publicly warned that Apple isn’t doing enough to inform its customers of their privacy rights.
The written privacy policies on Siri and Dictation services aren’t clear exactly how the technology works or how long the company stores customer data. Both services were first made available to the public as standard features in October 2011.
ZDNet noted that other companies, notably IBM have banned the use of the services in their workplaces because of security concerns.
Apple Executives Among Highest Paid
Four top executives at Apple are among the five highest paid employees at Standard & Poor’s 500 companies index according to a new report by Financial Post.
The Apple executives are Bob Mansfield, Bruce Sewell, Jeffery Williams and Peter Oppenheimer, according to fiscal 2012 compensation figures for top earners filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The Silicon Valley Business Journal reports that Mansfield, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Technology, is the company’s top earner at $85.5 million. Next is Sewell, at $69 million; Williams at $68.7 million and Oppenheimer, at $68.6 million.
The number one Silicon Valley earner, however, isn’t from Apple. It’s Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle who earned $96.2 million in compensation in 2012.
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