Privacy with work phones

[questbot]

Wondering if your phone is owned by your company, can your Viber activity (txts, calls) be monitored?

 

[Knockworstface]

I personally wouldn't surf any porn sites on a company owned smartphone/iPhone but that's just me.

 

[old-wiz]

If it is a work supplied phone, expect zero privacy for anything you do on it.

 

[ucfgrad93]

If it is a work supplied phone, expect zero privacy for anything you do on it.

Agreed. If a company is paying for the phone and service they have every right to monitor what is done on it.

 

[maflynn]

ITs not your phone and so I'd treat it accordingly. I'd say the rules that govern what they allow on their workstations should be used as a rule of thumb on the iPhone as well

 

[MacDawg]

I have my work phone (Galaxy S3) forwarded to my Google Voice number
and my Google Voice rings my personal iPhone and my desk landline

Never even turn on the company issued Galaxy S3

 

[Abarth1200]

I personally wouldn't surf any porn sites on a company owned smartphone/iPhone but that's just me.

Did he say anything about surfing the web or did you just make that assumption.

 

[C DM]

Seems like the posed question was very specific and was in relation to Viber app activity--all the replies and no answer to the actual question and the the specifics that were asked about.

 

[Knockworstface]

Did he say anything about surfing the web or did you just make that assumption.

It's called making a joke. If you fail to see that. I'm sorry.

 

[dave420]

If they don't have any VPN configured, and there is no iCloud backup setup to a work iCloud account, then I would say your application data is safe with you. As long as they don't make you hand the phone over to them.
Not sure what the all the other people are referring to regarding the employers ability to monitor what you do. Haven't seen any evidence to support that type of monitoring.....

 

[piecloud]

If they don't have any VPN configured, and there is no iCloud backup setup to a work iCloud account, then I would say your application data is safe with you. As long as they don't make you hand the phone over to them.
Not sure what the all the other people are referring to regarding the employers ability to monitor what you do. Haven't seen any evidence to support that type of monitoring.....

If they have a MDM managing the device (I assume most decent sized companies do), then they can do much more than that. They can get a list of all installed apps. Check location (and location history), and a whole bunch of other info.

 

[dave420]

If they have a MDM managing the device (I assume most decent sized companies do), then they can do much more than that. They can get a list of all installed apps. Check location (and location history), and a whole bunch of other info.

Thanks for the information. I found a document here that describes what can be obtained from the phone with an MDM server. I don't see anything listed about application data, so it sounds like the original poster doesn't have to worry about his Viber activity being monitored.