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The White House is ordering U.S. agencies to place its new app on all employees’ government phones (www.govexec.com)
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[–] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 37 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

This is strictly for government-issued devices. So everyone that is subject to this is already carrying two phones.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

As I have one for work which is not my personal phone. And it is totally enterprise-managed so they put whatever apps they want on it and block anything they want. It’s their phone essentially. This headline seems like a nothingburger to me.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

So like the phones of his secret service detail? I'm waiting for it to be announced that it'll be bundled into the Trump phone.

[–] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

For what it's worth, I saw that it had been installed on my government issued phone this morning and was able to simply uninstall it.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Some people won't have admin control rights to do that. And by uninstalling it you are in violation of an executive order.

[–] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I also ignored the DOGE emails last year and I'm still around. I'm honestly not the least bit concerned.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 41 minutes ago) (1 children)

You'd probably win a suit for the termination suit

[–] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Respectfully, I've been working in government for nearly 20 years. I know what my limits are and what I can get away with. I never signed any acknowledgement that I would keep the app on the phone. Worst case scenario and extremely unlikely to happen, they somehow notice it's missing from my phone and ask me about it. "Oh, my bad. Didn't know I wasn't supposed to remove it."

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 1 points 40 minutes ago

Sorry, it looks like voice to text messed up my reply. I have fixed it.

[–] fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 12 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

for now!

or do you prefer:

so far!

[–] homes@piefed.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Whatever gets you through the day without getting blackout drunk