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That's not new though, which I think is what the poster is pointing to. China has always been an economic competitor and has been violating human rights for a very long time. There seems to be more attention on it now though.
Left unchecked, China will soon be the biggest economy in the world. The USA doesn't want that.
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When I worked at Google over 5 years ago, mobile device options for accessing company accounts were a company-provided and company-owned device with a company-paid phone bill, a personal device with company-provided mobile device management (and sometimes cell phone bill expensing if you for example had on-call duties), a personal device with only limited browser-based work account access, and no account access via m…
The third option - accessing only browser sites - is under appreciated. I never needed to install Google's MDM on my mobile devices, I just used mobile web gmail and so forth. It's great, honestly, and the mobile web Calendar has the advantage that it doesn't destroy your battery life like the Calendar app will. I even saw a guy using the code review site on his mobile, on BART. That was dumb from the standpoint of i…
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You have incorrectly framed the issue. The fact is that China has been anti-US and anti-democracy for the past few decades and the world is finally coming to terms with that and defending themselves. It is both laughable and sad that so many Americans like yourself are so ill-informed and quick to jump on the "US bad" train.
They never said US bad. I think its totally reasonable to point out that there was a sudden, drastic shift in tone over the last 3-6 months. TikTok was gaining popularity last summer, and no one, short of a few NYT op-eds, said anything. China is a geopolitical rival. We should probably aspire to be better than them first rather than copy them with an internet firewall and censorship of our own. One of the challenges…
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Does Amazon provide company phones or just install an MDM profile on your personal phone? I have TikTok installed on my phone, and if my employer said I had to remove it to access my work email, I'd ask them to buy me a work phone. It seems a bit ridiculous that they'd want to control what apps you download on your personal device without providing an alternative.
There's also no requirement to have your business email on your phone, at least in my organization in Amazon. I'm happy to leave it off and not worry about any issues like this. Of course I do have other apps directly related to work... I guess those aren't an issue if I had TikTok?
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Evidence always goes back to that adrian zenz fraud. I don't believe it.
EDIT: Since HN has blocked me from posting too fast, here is my response to your reply:
> It's so absurd! Not a SINGLE MUSLIM MAJORITY COUNTRY is against these supposed Xinjiang camps! Why do you think the USA suddenly cares about muslims? Use your brain.
Maybe China has bought their silence? See https://www.businessinsider.com/imran-khan-pakistan-wont-cri.... UN has been bought as well. See all actions by WHO since Covid-19 started.
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I'll admit I don't know the specifics beyond what was tweeted. I'm with you though... If an employer wants to manage my device, they can provide the device.
With all the security implications there could be, I would just refuse to use or own a smartphone in any capacity if it's related to work, unless there was no camera, mic, or GPS sensor (or they could provide hardware switches). Seriously, they could be logging your exact location, remotely activating the camera or doing any number of disgusting things. Requiring the use of a spy should not be a factor in an employme…
Installing an app that relays GPS and camera may be possible, but permissions need to be granted by the user explicitly- the MDM server cannot grant those permissions.
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Yeah, not to defend Tik-Tok, China, or spyware in general, but it's ironic that nobody has a problem with Google, Facebook, and other American companies tracking everything people do, but when a Chinese company starts doing it, it's suddenly a big problem. But then again, TikTok probably doesn't answer their subpoenas...
Yeah the difference is that if FB violates my rights, I have some recourse. Not so if its the CCP.
I know there's plenty of political implications and a lot of discussion here is on that (which is interesting in its own right), but I wonder if there's opportunity here for a potential competitor.