Carrying two gadgets around is inconvenient
Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2025 3:46 am
My smartphone is your smartphone
All modern phones have GPS. If your personal device has a work profile or MDM installed, your employer can run an app to track your movements, says Owen Williams of OneZero. He gives the example of MDM maker Hexnode, which details how it can track your device’s location at any time.
Williams also notes that a company may require you to connect your phone to the internet through its VPN. This security measure makes sense for business, but it also means that all your data can pass through your employer’s network. The company isn’t breaking anything — there’s no law that can stop it. “It’s really no different than using your office computer taiwan number data to send personal emails. If you’re sending unencrypted personal data over a network owned and controlled by your employer, you have to understand that it can be intercepted and stored,” says attorney and security expert Frederick Lane.
Rivers recently tweeted a line from her employment contract that reads, “I have no reasonable expectation of privacy in any Google property or in any other documents, equipment, or systems used to conduct Google’s business.” Google said this shouldn’t come as a surprise and is standard practice at large companies.
What happens if you lose your data?
What Rivers didn’t expect was losing personal data on her own device. But that’s happening more and more, says Lew Maltby, president of the National Institute for Employment Rights, who calls it a bigger threat than spying. “They’re wiping your personal device to get rid of the company data, but they’re also deleting everything else,” he says.
All modern phones have GPS. If your personal device has a work profile or MDM installed, your employer can run an app to track your movements, says Owen Williams of OneZero. He gives the example of MDM maker Hexnode, which details how it can track your device’s location at any time.
Williams also notes that a company may require you to connect your phone to the internet through its VPN. This security measure makes sense for business, but it also means that all your data can pass through your employer’s network. The company isn’t breaking anything — there’s no law that can stop it. “It’s really no different than using your office computer taiwan number data to send personal emails. If you’re sending unencrypted personal data over a network owned and controlled by your employer, you have to understand that it can be intercepted and stored,” says attorney and security expert Frederick Lane.
Rivers recently tweeted a line from her employment contract that reads, “I have no reasonable expectation of privacy in any Google property or in any other documents, equipment, or systems used to conduct Google’s business.” Google said this shouldn’t come as a surprise and is standard practice at large companies.
What happens if you lose your data?
What Rivers didn’t expect was losing personal data on her own device. But that’s happening more and more, says Lew Maltby, president of the National Institute for Employment Rights, who calls it a bigger threat than spying. “They’re wiping your personal device to get rid of the company data, but they’re also deleting everything else,” he says.