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If you put sensitive company data on your phone, you have consented to this behavior. Some companies make it an explicit acceptance, others implicit. If you d

If you put sensitive company data on your phone, you have consented to this behavior. Some companies make it an explicit acceptance, others implicit. If you don't like this kind of thing, use a DIFFERENT phone for work and personal. As an example. You use your phone for company business and have sensitive data on customers, including payment info, birth dates, addresses, socials, etc. If your company knows this data exists on your phone, they have a LEGAL obligation to wipe that data in certain circumstances.

Silhouette 16y ago
> If you put sensitive company data on your phone, you have consented to this behavior. Some companies make it an explicit acceptance, others implicit. So allowing any company data onto your phone is not only consent but implicit consent to the company arbitrarily wiping your entire phone? I'm with the guy in the original article: I would love to see you make that argument with a straight face while standing before a judge in court. I imagine the consequences would be... expensive.
- maukdaddy 16y ago
  I hope you're joking. Too lazy to look right now, but I'm pretty sure legal precedence for this is already established. If you read almost every company's AUP you'll see that by using or connecting to their systems you are consenting and giving up your right to privacy.
  - Silhouette 16y ago
    > Too lazy to look right now, but I'm pretty sure legal precedence for this is already established. Unfortunately, so far, exactly no-one responding to my original comment has managed to provide even a specific statement of what they think the law requires an employer to do in this context, never mind any verifiable citations. And yet, several different posters claim that there is some form of legal obligation on an employer that not only justifies but actively requires them to have this kind of facility to do it. What legal obligation do you all think a company has to be able to destroy an employee's personal data arbitrarily? What precedent do you think has been established, and in what jurisdiction? > If you read almost every company's AUP you'll see that by using or connecting to their systems you are consenting and giving up your right to privacy. Companies say all kinds of things in agreements. Many of them are completely one-sided, some to the extent of being abusive of an employer-employee relationship. Fortunately, given that many of them are imposed without any real scope for negotiation, courts tend to rule that the unreasonable ones are not enforceable. Those conditions that interfere with an employee's life outside of work are among the most commonly struck down; see the status of overly broad non-compete clauses in many US states or most of Europe, for example.

Silhouette 16y ago

> If you put sensitive company data on your phone, you have consented to this behavior. Some companies make it an explicit acceptance, others implicit. So allowing any company data onto your phone is not only consent but implicit consent to the company arbitrarily wiping your entire phone? I'm with the guy in the original article: I would love to see you make that argument with a straight face while standing before a judge in court. I imagine the consequences would be... expensive.

maukdaddy 16y ago
I hope you're joking. Too lazy to look right now, but I'm pretty sure legal precedence for this is already established. If you read almost every company's AUP you'll see that by using or connecting to their systems you are consenting and giving up your right to privacy.
- Silhouette 16y ago
  > Too lazy to look right now, but I'm pretty sure legal precedence for this is already established. Unfortunately, so far, exactly no-one responding to my original comment has managed to provide even a specific statement of what they think the law requires an employer to do in this context, never mind any verifiable citations. And yet, several different posters claim that there is some form of legal obligation on an employer that not only justifies but actively requires them to have this kind of facility to do it. What legal obligation do you all think a company has to be able to destroy an employee's personal data arbitrarily? What precedent do you think has been established, and in what jurisdiction? > If you read almost every company's AUP you'll see that by using or connecting to their systems you are consenting and giving up your right to privacy. Companies say all kinds of things in agreements. Many of them are completely one-sided, some to the extent of being abusive of an employer-employee relationship. Fortunately, given that many of them are imposed without any real scope for negotiation, courts tend to rule that the unreasonable ones are not enforceable. Those conditions that interfere with an employee's life outside of work are among the most commonly struck down; see the status of overly broad non-compete clauses in many US states or most of Europe, for example.