• supercriticalcheese@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    It got installed edge on an android phone as well.

    While Microsoft doesn't normally control anything on android, my workplace requires a Microsoft intune to be installed to run the company email or teams on your phone. This effectively creates a workprofile with it's own play store and a forced install of several applications such as edge

      • Edgarallenpwn [they/them]@midwest.social
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        1 year ago

        Yeah seems like a request for a work provided phone would fix it. A guy I used to work with bought a burner flip phone when something like this was required and got the company to provide a work phone. After a month or two he would just openly use his normal phone and no one batted an eye.

      • lud@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        You should demand a work phone but work apps are usually insolated from the rest of the system for both yours and your employers benefit.

        • PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          1 year ago

          It enables your job to track you off hours. Did you go to a protest on the weekend your company doesn't approve of? If you aren't careful, you might give it permissions to your photos. If it's some form of 2FA, it might desire access to your SMS. In earlier days, the Outlook app use to be able to wipe the phone, it is more sandboxed now. But can you see how allowing access to your private information is a bad idea? Just say no. If it's for work related apps, they owe you a device to run it on.

          • lud@lemm.ee
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            1 year ago

            The amount of tracking the intrusiveness of it highly depends on the type of management they used.

            MAM or work profiles are most often used for personal devices and it grants the employer the ability to only manage specific apps and or profile.

            MDM enrollment is used for corporate owned devices and is more capable.

            Here is some documentation for MS Intune, it will be slightly different for other providers but it will be roughly the same: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/apps/android-deployment-scenarios-app-protection-work-profiles

            If it's for work related apps, they owe you a device to run it on.

            Absolutely.