I’m about 4 months into a new job and I do everything via laptop. It’s a good sized company, about 400 employees I think. I got a request from IT for a meeting to transition from JAMF to Desktop Central, which is affecting everything. I had no idea about JAMF though, it was never mentioned in my onboarding. Trying to look up info on these two brought me to basically “they can see absolutely everything you do.” But it’s not too clear to me the extent involved here. Any IT folks with knowledge about this? Researching into it, fucking every company with remote employees is getting into this. Feels like a massive surveillance transition unrolling in real time and it seems real bad

Edit - are there any ways I can effectively prevent them from doing this? Dummy activity scripts? VPNs?

Double edit — it is indeed a work laptop issued to me

  • red_stapler [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Any IT folks with knowledge about this?

    I'm relatively new to Apple and JAMF administration; but in my experience it kinda depends on if the device is supervised or not. On a supervised device you can see how long someone has been active in Chrome but not see if what they're posting on Hexbear is cringe or based. If it's user-enrolled for like a BYOD type of policy you can only really see the things you've pushed out and wipe that portion of the device.

    edit MacOS is infinitely more of a pain in the ass to administer with JAMF, so it definitely depends on how experienced your admin is.

    edit edit Also fuck JAMF I'd rather use InTune at least I know what the fuck I'm doing in Microsoft menus.