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Sure. Trust them to keep that button around… :)
That works until you are forced to interact with a website that only works with it, either by work or school.
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but that doesn’t scale as well so I am unlikeley to run into that most of the time
There was a lawsuit regarding this just recently, where a student successfully sued over a room scan for an exam. It’s absolutely ridiculous and shouldn’t be tolerated by any student.
That’s already the case with most corporate managed BYO device policies. The typical scenario is that an employer gives you the choice:
It’s a legitimate concern that these types of things would normalize corporate-managed devices in our personal lives as consumers, and worth resisting in that space, but I don’t think it would actually change the status quo in the corporate world to go from proprietary device management lockdowns to some kind of public standard for lockdowns.
Which is exactly why I will never do 2. Provide a device if you want control. I will not give you the ability to wipe my personal phone remotely just to check my work email on it.
Exactly. If you’re going to lock down and control a device I’m going to need that device provided to me.