iOS 9.3 will report on employer surveillance
The new version of the operating system iOS 9.3 will inform the owner of the iPhone, if it is being followed by its employer. The message “This smartphone is managed by your organization” will be visible both on the lock screen and in the About section of the smartphone.
User Reddit has published screenshots from the iPhone, which has a beta version of iOS 9.3. The images show a message about the management of the smartphone by the employer. He later noted that the notification appears only in cases where the phone is controlled - simply connecting to the MDM (Master Data Management) system is not enough.
Stop snooping and monitoring the device will fail. But now users will know about it. Including those workers who, having received a corporate device, did not know that their telephone was controlled, they knew about every movement and monitored traffic.
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Surveillance by employers became a matter of dispute in court. In May 2015, an employee of the American company was fired for removing the application from the corporate iPhone, tracking her movements 24 hours a day using GPS. The woman demanded half a million dollars. The plaintiff compared the app Xora with a bracelet that prisoners wear at the ankle. The lawsuit included invasion of privacy and unfair business practices.
The app for spying on employees Xora
Apple’s decision to report control once again shows how concerned the company is about the privacy of users. Other recent high-profile Apple moves in this direction lately are the refusal to lift the restriction on 10 attempts to enter the iPhone password on a terrorist’s smartphone, the refusal to unlock the drug dealer’s phone and provide the encryption keys to the Barack Obama administration.
User Reddit has published screenshots from the iPhone, which has a beta version of iOS 9.3. The images show a message about the management of the smartphone by the employer. He later noted that the notification appears only in cases where the phone is controlled - simply connecting to the MDM (Master Data Management) system is not enough.
Stop snooping and monitoring the device will fail. But now users will know about it. Including those workers who, having received a corporate device, did not know that their telephone was controlled, they knew about every movement and monitored traffic.
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Surveillance by employers became a matter of dispute in court. In May 2015, an employee of the American company was fired for removing the application from the corporate iPhone, tracking her movements 24 hours a day using GPS. The woman demanded half a million dollars. The plaintiff compared the app Xora with a bracelet that prisoners wear at the ankle. The lawsuit included invasion of privacy and unfair business practices.
The app for spying on employees Xora
Apple’s decision to report control once again shows how concerned the company is about the privacy of users. Other recent high-profile Apple moves in this direction lately are the refusal to lift the restriction on 10 attempts to enter the iPhone password on a terrorist’s smartphone, the refusal to unlock the drug dealer’s phone and provide the encryption keys to the Barack Obama administration.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/391405/
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