I was working with a company for 4 years or so, and on my 2nd year they started a new initiative to get every employee to download some weird app to their phone, it was a MUST, it basically gives them full control over your phone and the ability to open / close / delete and whatever they want, including monitoring, I downloaded it as it was a must and the after sending them confirmation I deleted it immediately.
Important note, those were company issued phones but still the fact they forced us to download those apps pissed me off, but noone said or did anything because everyone wants to keep their job.
There were a lot of issues with that company regarding different stuff, especially employee privacy tho.
(Mar 12, 2021 10:40 AM)Exalted Wrote: Glad you're spyware free 😁, but yeah, you're right about that. What's your view on such spyware, though?
Imagine being fired for having too much background noise caused by external factors you do not control or have very little influence on.
Ah, yeah, that's true; most spyware does share those kinds of features.
Unfortunately, it happens all the time. The supervisors audit the employees sometimes and several have been fired for that reason. It's sad that people are doing that during a pandemic when times are extremely uncertain.
(Mar 12, 2021 11:21 AM)Juoku Wrote: I was working with a company for 4 years or so, and on my 2nd year they started a new initiative to get every employee to download some weird app to their phone, it was a MUST, it basically gives them full control over your phone and the ability to open / close / delete and whatever they want, including monitoring, I downloaded it as it was a must and the after sending them confirmation I deleted it immediately.
Important note, those were company issued phones but still the fact they forced us to download those apps pissed me off, but noone said or did anything because everyone wants to keep their job.
There were a lot of issues with that company regarding different stuff, especially employee privacy tho.
Even if they were company-issued phones, installing such apps without knowing exactly what they do is very privacy-invading. However, if you keep those phones off WiFi and don't do anything idiotic on them, you should be fine. That no one spoke out about it is not that surprising, people rather pick having a job over being jobless because you didn't want to install some application.
(Mar 12, 2021 11:41 AM)Verethragna Wrote: Unfortunately, it happens all the time. The supervisors audit the employees sometimes and several have been fired for that reason. It's sad that people are doing that during a pandemic when times are extremely uncertain.
Really? That's terrible. I hope that that company is going to stop doing that; quickly.
(Mar 12, 2021 01:17 PM)Exalted Wrote: Even if they were company-issued phones, installing such apps without knowing exactly what they do is very privacy-invading. However, if you keep those phones off WiFi and don't do anything idiotic on them, you should be fine. That no one spoke out about it is not that surprising, people rather pick having a job over being jobless because you didn't want to install some application.
Really? That's terrible. I hope that that company is going to stop doing that; quickly.
I hope so as well. Employees deserve better working conditions.
(Mar 12, 2021 01:23 PM)Verethragna Wrote: I hope so as well. Employees deserve better working conditions.
Better sooner than later; employees really do deserve better conditions than that.
(Mar 12, 2021 01:25 PM)ghostboy Wrote: When working at a call center that is an obvious yes. They blocked all websites and most google searches. Still found a couple things tho
I do get that there is monitoring software installed when you work in a call centre; the fact they Google searches surprises me.
(Mar 12, 2021 01:44 PM)nCoXo Wrote: I doubt as my boss is not that friendly with computers, good for us.
(Mar 12, 2021 01:50 PM)Nate Wrote: No, but my school wants to install Respondus Lockdown browser for when I take tests.
That's the kind of software that scares me. Did you get a device from school, or are you on your own hardware? I would grab my old Asus Eee PC to take the test. I would never install such software on my main device.
(Mar 12, 2021 01:53 PM)Exalted Wrote: That's the kind of software that scares me. Did you get a device from school, or are you on your own hardware? I would grab my old Asus Eee PC to take the test. I would never install such software on my main device.
Im at college they didn't supply me with a computer, I would have to run it on my main device. I'm sure I can find a laptop around my house to use
(Mar 12, 2021 01:55 PM)Nate Wrote: Im at college they didn't supply me with a computer, I would have to run it on my main device. I'm sure I can find a laptop around my house to use
Ah, then getting a 2nd device would be the best thing to do; if you don't have any, a cheap laptop can easily do the job as it's tough to trust such software, and you never know what it actually does until one fully REs it.
(Mar 12, 2021 01:58 PM)Exalted Wrote: Ah, then getting a 2nd device would be the best thing to do; if you don't have any, a cheap laptop can easily do the job as it's tough to trust such software, and you never know what it actually does until one fully REs it.
I know I was watching some youtubers before they said its pretty invasive program with the permissions it requests as well
(Mar 12, 2021 01:17 PM)Exalted Wrote: Even if they were company-issued phones, installing such apps without knowing exactly what they do is very privacy-invading. However, if you keep those phones off WiFi and don't do anything idiotic on them, you should be fine. That no one spoke out about it is not that surprising, people rather pick having a job over being jobless because you didn't want to install some application.
Exactly, I kept my job but I deleted that app as quickly as I got it, it was super annoying too, other people that worked with me were technologically challenged and it forced them to change passwords every month and if you failed it once you had to call IT to get your password reset and other shit
(Mar 12, 2021 02:00 PM)Nate Wrote: I know I was watching some youtubers before they said its pretty invasive program with the permissions it requests as well
A good video by Mutahar he uploaded not too long ago:
(Mar 12, 2021 02:56 PM)Juoku Wrote: Exactly, I kept my job but I deleted that app as quickly as I got it, it was super annoying too, other people that worked with me were technologically challenged and it forced them to change passwords every month and if you failed it once you had to call IT to get your password reset and other shit
Oh man, that really sucks. Good on you for quickly deleting that app, though. Such systems are horrible, that whole process can easily be changed for the benefit of the company and the employees, but control overall, I guess.
(Mar 12, 2021 03:11 PM)Exalted Wrote: A good video by Mutahar he uploaded not too long ago:
Oh man, that really sucks. Good on you for quickly deleting that app, though. Such systems are horrible, that whole process can easily be changed for the benefit of the company and the employees, but control overall, I guess.
Thats the video I watched, I've became a avid watcher been watching him ac couple weeks, I have him playing in the background while I sleep as I can't sleep without having some type of background noise
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