In all cases involving work devices, the default assumption should be that the company can see anything you’re doing on it at any time.
This is why I carry two phones.
Years ago, almost two decades, I setup a Screensaver which basically took any image passed over the network and made a collage. Almost everything was like website banners and such.
One day I was in the server room doing something un-related and in the corner of my eye I saw some horrible images on the other screen. I immediately went to the cto who called the police.
Long story short he was immediately fired(and taken into custody) after being found in the bathroom… The images were kids between 3-7…
Before people ask, we could find out which access point he was using to determine approximate area. A quick walk around showed it wasn’t someone at there desk. Obviously they wouldn’t be in a meeting and there was only 1 set of bathrooms in that area. Female officer went into women’s room and reported it empty. Male officer went into men’s room and found 1 person, court case revealed history on his phone and yeah… Hopefully he’s still rotting in jail.
Well that’s horrifying.
Glad you guys caught the bastard.
What I don’t get is why do it at work? Like ok, sure you may not be able to control what you enjoy but it was a credit union… “oh yeah this annual financial report got me so horny I got to go commit a federal crime in the bathroom”… Wtf???
Some people can’t control themselves. Personally, I think having CSAM on a work device is a pretty good indicator of that.
The default assumption everyone had was E2EE message data like RCS would be private.
Even apple does not share imessage data unless the Apple ID belongs to the employer.
Why would google do such stupidity is beyond me. But, yes on android assume everything is tracked 24/7. Trust your personal phone only.
I hate misleading nothingburger headlines like this.
Google is rolling out Android RCS Archival on Pixel (and other Android) phones, allowing employers to intercept and archive RCS chats on work-managed devices
What’s surprising to me is that a work-managed-device couldn’t already do this!
the headline seems to be implying that Google will let your boss hack into your personal phone!
Work managed device can sometimes be “install the work app on your personal phone because we are cheap, also enable all the permissions or you can’t use the work app we assigned you to use”
no fucking way i would work somewhere like that… if you just give away your freedoms do you really deserve them?
if i was desperate id buy a separate burner phone for work then.Same, I have some laying around if they decide to go all weird with the MS authenticator.
