Can employers read the content of text messages sent from your personal smartphone?

[wdw35]

Hi everybody,

Can employers read the content of text messages you send while logged onto staff wifi? We have to sign in using a username and password. If so, how long is this information stored in their servers?

Thank you!!!

I believe I originally posted this in the wrong forum. Please remove from their and keep in the right one

 

[BaggieBoy]

iMessage is end to end encrypted, so they wouldn't be able to se the contents. Regular text messages would go straight to your carrier, so again they would have no access to them.

 

[wdw35]

Thank you what if iMessage is synced to facebook messenger as a secondary message service?

 

[Apple_Robert]

Thank you what if iMessage is synced to facebook messenger as a secondary message service?

If you are concerned about privacy, stay off FB and the like with your work phone. Stick to iMessage.

 

[wdw35]

I'm talking about my personal smartphone. Thank you!!

 

[WRXiceman]

No they can't. Even if your phone was registered with their MDM (mobile device management) service.

You cannot see contents of messages sent.

I work in the telecoms industry and mobiles specifically.

 

[Jimmy James]

Your sexting with your coworker remains under wraps.

 

[C DM]

No they can't. Even if your phone was registered with their MDM (mobile device management) service.

You cannot see contents of messages sent.

I work in the telecoms industry and mobiles specifically.

I was under the impression that depending on how things are set up, with some thing like MDM involved, then there can be a way for pretty much anything to be accessible. Not quite the situation the the OP brings up, but more along with a company/organization owned device that is under their control essentially.

 

[LoveToMacRumors]

Your sexting with your coworker remains under wraps.

Lmaoooooo

 

[jca24]

I'm talking about my personal smartphone. Thank you!!

stay off bookface anyway

 

[Mlrollin91]

Thank you what if iMessage is synced to facebook messenger as a secondary message service?

Wait, how are you syncing iMessage to Facebook Messenger...?

 

[Rigby]

I was under the impression that depending on how things are set up, with some thing like MDM involved, then there can be a way for pretty much anything to be accessible. Not quite the situation the the OP brings up, but more along with a company/organization owned device that is under their control essentially.

Not really. Sandboxing is still in place even with MDM enabled, so accessing information on the device is very limited. There are tricks to intercept some kinds of traffic such as web browsing though (by redirecting the traffic through a corporate proxy or VPN server, and installing additional certificates to run a man-in-the-middle attack on SSL traffic), but iMessage should indeed be safe since it uses its own encryption keys.

 

[joeblow7777]

Wait, how are you syncing iMessage to Facebook Messenger...?

I'm curious about what this means as well.