We have never, and will never, integrate someone’s personal phone into our infrastructure. Everyone gets a company phone. If you want to use the company phone as your personal phone, or the phone you use to cheat on your husband, that’s your call. Just don’t complain to me when video of you pleasuring yourself end up backed up to our cloud storage and discovered by IT when tracking down large files eating up storage. (Yes that happened.)
Yeah the whole thing is kinda dumb on both ends. From the employees perspective it’s ridiculous to allow the company have any level of control over a device they own. From the company’s perspective, why would you want to allow access and/or have information that’s the company’s property on a device the company doesn’t own?
If I have a password for key company infrastructure stored on my personal phone, then the company fires me… well that seems like a problem a company would want to avoid. It could happen in any scenario, but significantly less likely if I have to turn in my company phone when my employment ends.
But hey the company saves a few bucks on buying phones and that helps the quarterly profits I guess.
She was recording herself, sending the video file, then deleting the file from the phone. Our phones are configured to immediately back up, so (I am assuming) that while she put together the e-mail or text, our phone was dutifully doing its job.
You have to sign a document before you get equipment. Part of that document is you acknowledging that you read another document that outlines what you can and cannot do with company equipment and what the capabilities of said equipment are. We even tell people to close the physical camera shutter on the laptop whenever they aren’t on a video call if they want to ensure privacy. There is also a code of conduct document they need to read and sign. Using company property for lewd acts and to conceal adultery broke a number of agreements.
We have never, and will never, integrate someone’s personal phone into our infrastructure. Everyone gets a company phone. If you want to use the company phone as your personal phone, or the phone you use to cheat on your husband, that’s your call. Just don’t complain to me when video of you pleasuring yourself end up backed up to our cloud storage and discovered by IT when tracking down large files eating up storage. (Yes that happened.)
Yeah the whole thing is kinda dumb on both ends. From the employees perspective it’s ridiculous to allow the company have any level of control over a device they own. From the company’s perspective, why would you want to allow access and/or have information that’s the company’s property on a device the company doesn’t own?
If I have a password for key company infrastructure stored on my personal phone, then the company fires me… well that seems like a problem a company would want to avoid. It could happen in any scenario, but significantly less likely if I have to turn in my company phone when my employment ends.
But hey the company saves a few bucks on buying phones and that helps the quarterly profits I guess.
Wtf how? Was someone cybering over vid chat and checked the record option?
She was recording herself, sending the video file, then deleting the file from the phone. Our phones are configured to immediately back up, so (I am assuming) that while she put together the e-mail or text, our phone was dutifully doing its job.
Oh man how embarassing. I imagine you make it pretty clear that the company phone comes with this capability after that incident lol
You have to sign a document before you get equipment. Part of that document is you acknowledging that you read another document that outlines what you can and cannot do with company equipment and what the capabilities of said equipment are. We even tell people to close the physical camera shutter on the laptop whenever they aren’t on a video call if they want to ensure privacy. There is also a code of conduct document they need to read and sign. Using company property for lewd acts and to conceal adultery broke a number of agreements.
Well you tried