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Any company going this far will almost certainly be requiring device management on whatever device you put your work email on. So if you have your email on your personal phone the likelihood that they can already track your location 24/7 using your phone’s gps is extremely high.

You don't know how Cisco is triangulating your laptop's position from APs in range, do ya? It's 2015 tech, and it's insane.

Being able to see where everyone's cell phone is in the middle of an open-air concert ... and whether and where it has been on the muni network since ... has been valuable for cops looking to question a potential witness.

But yeah, if you're reading this in the company loo, your IT people probably know, if they cared. They don't care.

Hell, knowing when the boss's phone lights up on the site wifi was great for ambushing him with a purc req first-thing. ..or so I hear.

TL;DR: they don't need to know which IP range you're on, as their layer-1 has already ratted you out.

I'm more worried about them listening to my mic and recording my camera at this point.

Thank God my company is so antiquated they don't even know about half the tech that exists to spy on employees. Thankfully I'm also head of IT so imma keep them in the dark about that loll. Every time I upgrade the simplest things it's like I've shit out actual magic. It's great!

just use vpn all the time, even when at your desk in the office

That's why I send passive aggressive messages about my company on my work computer. Hopefully they see me laughing at their incompetence and obvious nepotism.

We'll, uh, see how it works out.

Member when “the government is listening!” Was ‘just crazy paranoids’?

Yeah.

It doesn't help that pretty much every single thing that has ever been done in the name of "safety" in America has eventually been used to rip us off or harm us in some way, and that isn't even counting the fake shit that was a fraud from the get-go (like the patriot act and the like).

But when MS pulls this invasive bullshit it makes people afraid that my 911 software is doing the same thing.

How’s that?

Narkoslop

I don't think it's wise to believe tech oligarchs saying that orwellian surveillance tech cannot be exploited for orwellian surveillance.

Besides companies can just require employees to opt in - "we just built this fresh horror, how companies use it is up to them" doesn't really fly.

By default users are opted out…

… unless your company admin overrides that choice with a policy and force enables it.

Exactly. When I have to interact with Microsoft, I feel best keeping it in a browser.

My work/manager has the best possible way of managing: get your work done, dont make drama, work as little or much as you need. We have to try to get 45 hours but almost no one does or they pad their timesheet. But then there's weeks you travel and work 60 hours (but its actually work not wasting time)

Works great for people like me who are useless from 1 pm to about 3 pm, but really able to get a lot of work done from 5 to 7 ish. Unless youre missing meetings, no one cares where you are. I could go to Hawaii tomorrow with my laptop and do the exact same work I do now.

good managers don't care.

I’ve been in software development for 15 years and never had a manager that wasn’t at least a little bit of a micromanager. The reality is that it rarely takes 8 hours or more to do the things that need to be done in a day but the expectation most often is still that if my AuDHD ass isn’t in my often windowless office for 9 hours a day then I must not be working.

Except your managers might think it's important, or you're a shitty manager trying to fill their time and look important by micromanaging your employees.

I edited it, thank you for alerting me.