Since when are companies installing MDM on peoples personal devices?
It is usually just for corporate devices, where you shouldn't leave any personal data on.
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2024
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TL;DR - never use company devices for personal materials. Create a separate, independent email strictly for work or your company email for all company devices, not your personal one.
I have a mobile device required for work, and my personal device.
No personal stuff goes on the work device. Photos, apps, logins, messaging, whatever. Zero. However, many of my colleagues use the device like, “Free mobile device, bro!” and load it up with everything they have on their personal device.
That is a horrible idea. The company device has its own cybersecurity app installed and managed by company servers that sees everything on your device, and should your device be used for something it shouldn’t, they don’t even have to take it from you to know what you did. They know when you did it, too. Watching movies or texting while driving? Reading a book or using social media while monitoring a system? If you crash the company car, or the system goes TU and they see you were fucking around with the company device instead of doing your job, you’re fucked. They see it all, it’s all regularly scanned, uploaded, screened, whatever. They just don’t bother to look unless they need to. Already had a couple people fired for illegal material on their devices.
When I set up the device management on my work phone, it explicitly said it couldn't see media files on my phone. And particularly it didn't touch the non-work profile. Do you have a source that contradicts this?
There's a difference between setting up a work profile and just installing mdm on your main profile. I'd still try and stay away from it if you can
Ok makes sense. Thanks
This is the employer working around having to purchase and maintain a phone inventory for employees.
While we're on the topic, this also applies to laptop/desktop hardware for the work-from-home crowd.
In general it's a bad idea to use personal devices for work. Companies that don't give you a choice are being cheap and disrespecting of privacy at best, and want to spy into your personal life at worst. It's also really, really, really bad IT security for everyone involved.
I quit my job of over a decade using the same phone and email, I left to go competition. I gave them all my passwords.
I've kept my personal phone a lot longer than I had theirs lol