▲ 115 ▼ Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer (www.forbes.com) submitted 9 months ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/android@lemdro.id 44 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 months ago (1 child) I mean if you own a work managed phone then that's always been true. If the phone is yours then really this article doesn't pertain to you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 9 months ago In theory, sure - it's only a concern if you have a work-managed device. In concept, though, there are more parties with partial control/access to your device from whom you only have a tenuous protection at-best. Normalizing the practice of automatic archival of encrypted communication is bad. I don't think that's a particularly spicy take. "They say it won't be used except in these specific circumstances" is no better than a fig-leaf, especially when those types of promises have been repeatedly broken. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 9 months ago In theory, sure - it's only a concern if you have a work-managed device. In concept, though, there are more parties with partial control/access to your device from whom you only have a tenuous protection at-best. Normalizing the practice of automatic archival of encrypted communication is bad. I don't think that's a particularly spicy take. "They say it won't be used except in these specific circumstances" is no better than a fig-leaf, especially when those types of promises have been repeatedly broken. permalink fedilink source parent