Apple fires engineer over daughter’s iPhone X video

Apple reportedly fired an engineer after his daughter released a video of her showing features on a pre-release iPhone X at the company's high-end employee cafeteria at its California headquarters.

Brooke Amelia Peterson who was visiting her father at the company recorded a video featuring the gadget's design and a few features such as the Cover Sheet notification screen and Animoji as well as codenames of unreleased Apple products and special employee-only QR codes.

The video quickly went viral and even though Apple reportedly asked Peterson to delete the video it was already widely shared by other media outlets and individuals.

After the incident, Peterson released a second video saying the tech giant fired his father due to allowing her to film unreleased handset at Apple's campus, ultimately violating Apple's policy. She said neither she or her father was

Apple will launch the iPhone X early next month as excitement is already building everywhere. The company's newest device is designed to be unlocked with a facial scan with a number of privacy safeguards. It also has an animoji feature that allows users to animate the facial expressions of emojis using facial recognition technology.