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> legal forced me to hand-over all my texts Who is "legal"? Corporate legal? They no right to your personal phone. Even if they were subpoenaed, they could onl
by dheera 5y ago
> legal forced me to hand-over all my texts
Who is "legal"? Corporate legal? They no right to your personal phone. Even if they were subpoenaed, they could only ask you to hand over data on corporate devices, not your personal one.
The only people who can get your personal device are a search warrant from a court.
- beambot 5y agoMost of these companies offer a BYOD option where you explicitly agree to co-mingle work & personal use of your phone -- upto & including paying your cellular bills. This frequently means signing waivers permitting surveillance, installing corporate applications, surrendering the phone upon termination, and placing everything on the device at risk of subpoena. When the company is subpoenaed, they aren't going to give you the chance to delete data from "evidence". This is probably what happened here.
- dheera 5y agoRight, makes sense. I'd never BYOD to work unless I had a spare throwaway device specifically for that. But as long as you maintain a separate personal device that you never touch work stuff on -- and hell, never bring it inside the office -- they shouldn't have the right to data on that.