As much as I love google hate, the bigger problem is people thinking work devices are private. They are not. Your messages/thoughts/ideas belong to the organization.
Yeah this is the bigger issue here really. Fuck Google and their invasive bullshit, absolutely, but work devices should never be used for personal/private use, and vice versa. Keep that shit completely separate as much as possible.
Suddenly, the perk of being given a phone at work is not as good as it might seem.
Since when is a work phone a perk. They have horrible battery performance, only function between 9 and 5 and call quality is absolute fuckin shit.
A work phone is a perk because it means you don’t have to install Teams, Slack, and a bunch of proprietary nonsense you’ve never heard of onto your personal phone.
Me over here having to provide my own work phone because BYOD. At least it’s my old phone I upgraded from, so the cost is already sunk.
another bullshit Forbes headline…
how many people would have clicked on this if the title had used the term “on your work phone” like the first sentence of the article does?
GrapheneOS. Use a work profile. Segregate your work from your personal information. As far as the employer is concerned, they have full control over your device. They can even send a wipe command to it and it would only affect the work partition, leaving your personal data alone.
My favorite tool for managing this is an app called Shelter. Graphene has robust profiling support, but I don’t want to have to swap in and out of something to see info. Shelter allows you to clone apps from your main profile to your work profile. You don’t even have to set up Google Play Services with an account if you don’t want.
