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My company just started requiring Microsoft Intune Company Portal app to use Teams and Outlook. From a friend in IT infosec at another company said the app can push apps, require certain settings, password requirements, or OSs, and can see a lot of stuff on your phone. I don't think this level of intrusion into my personal phone is warranted or ethical. Be warned. I'm just going to uninstall and suffer the internal political consequences.

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[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

That’s still not clear as there are two versions of that.

  1. If your situation is that you are required to have company data on your personal phone and so requires you to have this app on your phone then that is infuriating.

  2. If the situation is that you are allowed to have company data on your personal phone but you are required to have the app if you choose to have the data then that’s not infuriating IMO.

I’m responsible for the security in our company and we have the second version where people can choose to have the company data on their personal device if they also allow that app. If they choose not to use their personal phone for company work then that’s fine and they don’t need the app.

And when I say choose I mean that you should have a real choice. Not a choice where you are considered not to be a team player or other such BS if you don’t agree.