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That almost certainly would be illegal in the UK. In fact I believe we even have privacy for personal emails sent through work systems. Any country that makes it legal for your work to wipe your personal phone unless you have given explicit informed consent has seriously flawed laws.
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: Any country that makes it legal for your work to wipe your personal phone unless you have given explicit informed consent has seriously flawed laws.
I would say, it has different laws.
This is not so difficult to understand when you consider the point of view "companies are more important than people"
Anything I would write beyond this point, would require the soapbox back, so I will spare my additional comments  
M.D.V. 
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Glad that I read this, and I feel much better now being a jerk and making my employers utilize their own resources instead of me providing my phone.
My career employer uses Active Directory and Office 365. They wanted me to install MS app for Multi-Factor-Authentication. They didn't want to pay my phone bill though, or provide a phone for me to use.
As a result of this, the AD team had to correct everyone's accounts so that MFA could use people's desk phones. A problem happened when the marketing team got a hold of the IVR (automated operator) system and changed the direct dial number. Oops
Now my part time employer (I works 1 day monthly) wants me to put in their ADP payroll app AND some "Hot Schedules" app. That ain't happening either.
I have read the "permissions" for both MS & ADP and they both want my pictures, contacts, location... And the "schedule" app wants blutooth.
Not happening
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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+1 BYOD is a minefield just waiting for either the company or the user to make the wrong step. If companies want to force employees to use their phones for work, they should be paying for them (and likely buying them as well, so they can support them).
TTFN - Kent
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Chris won't give you a phone, then?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Avast, the multibillion-dollar Czech security company, doesn’t just make money from protecting its 400 million users’ information. It also profits in part because of sales of users’ Web browsing habits and has been doing so since at least 2013. Ye scurvy dogs!
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The probe follows the ‘Thanksgiving Four’ firings Fire no evil
Not a very good one. Sorry. I feel you deserve better. Perhaps I need a federal investigation?
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People perceive a person's competence partly based on subtle economic cues emanating from the person's clothing, according to a study published in Nature Human Behaviour by Princeton University. Welcome to cutting edge research from 1819?
Still not giving up my hoodie. I'll just remain incompetent, thanks (not that a suit would change anything)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: (not that a suit would change anything)
Maybe if you combine it with a shave...  
M.D.V.
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Nah, a man-scape wouldn't help him.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Plenty of software development technology has gone through a huge shift in the past few years. It's that time of the year again
But this time, we're looking forward with 2020 vision!
Yeah, that joke is lame already, and it's not even 2020 yet.
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"Meet the new boss Same as the old boss"
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Babelspeak.
blah blah blah buzzword blah blah blah buzzword2 blah blah blah buzzword3... ad barfium
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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The Chinese Communist Party Central Office has ordered all government services to replace all computers running non-Chinese software and operating systems within the next 3 years, reports AFR. "What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander"
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I guess they have stolen enough to build their own stuff now. 
Coincidentally, today whilst reviewing my webserver logs, I noticed abuse and looked up the IP...yep, another Beijing host...now blocked! Quit mucking up my server logs! 
To be fair, only 90% of the hacking attempts originate in China. Russia is the other hacker nation.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: To be fair, only 90% of the hacking attempts originate in China
Whether or not they originate there is a matter worth investigating.
If I wanted to hack someone, I'd go through a Beijing server, too -- anonymity through obscurity, and all that.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Makes sense to me.
I don't trust ms, google, amazon, etc. either, and would be very happy if Europe could dump absolutely every piece of spyware software made by them.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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When support for Windows 7 ends on Jan. 14, Microsoft will also stop providing new malware signatures for its home-grown Security Essentials software. They'd really, really, really appreciate it if you "upgraded" to Win10
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It will be an end of an era at Microsoft next week, an era that may have divided the company and the tech community far too long. They will no longer be 'Live Tiles'
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Zombie Tiles. They eat the memory of your device.
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So, they're not changing? 
TTFN - Kent
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Are they going to drop that crap of "one windows to rule them all" and go back to a Desktop OS that might be useful in a Windows 11?
M.D.V. 
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Back on January 27, 2010, a very Big Thinker declared the PC dead. A decade later, the PC is very much alive, although a time traveler from 2010 might not recognize it. Here's how this endangered species evolved and survived. Reality?
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Read that strange article last week. I was expecting a discussion on PCs, not laptops, but when I realized where it was going, I was still disappointed; small format tablets were oversold from the start. Then there is the tag "might not recognize it."; Only if you're a complete idiot.
Not the first ZDNet article to fail last week.
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headline headline.
Click bait article talks about click bait articles, not know they were click bait articles.
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