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Company Requiring Invasive MS app to use Teams/Outlook on Phone (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 month ago by apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world to c/actually_infuriating@lemmy.world

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My company just started requiring Microsoft Intune Company Portal app to use Teams and Outlook. From a friend in IT infosec at another company said the app can push apps, require certain settings, password requirements, or OSs, and can see a lot of stuff on your phone. I don't think this level of intrusion into my personal phone is warranted or ethical. Be warned. I'm just going to uninstall and suffer the internal political consequences.

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[–] dotslashme 85 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Imho any company that require you to install apps on your phone should provide their own hardware. No way I'm installing stalkerware on my personal device.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is how it used to be, then everyone screeched and hollered for BYOD so they could use their gaming laptops at work.

Never BYOD.

[–] dotslashme 2 points 3 days ago

I never understood the byod hype. It is complete shit for both personal opsec and IT administration.

[–] Lemming6969@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I required them to give me a phone if they wanted extra control. So they gave me one. And then I refused to carry it around outside work hours, because I'm not paid for that and refuse to carry 2 devices and must have my personal device. So I never used the phone for work, it became an android auto device that sat in my car.

[–] semperverus@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you're hourly, that totally makes sense, but if you're salary then in a lot of places in the world they kind of semi-own your ass and you do have to check messages outside of "work hours" since those technically don't exist for you. Some companies might enforce the standard 8-5, Monday through Friday and encourage only working 40 hours a week (and those are good companies), but legally they don't have to limit it to just that on salary.

[–] viking 5 points 1 month ago

I've only never heard of that shit from the US. Hourly is hardly a thing elsewhere, unless for delivery drivers and similar.