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Meanwhile in Spain I use WhatsApp to contact the municipality, the GP uses it to send my blood results and package delivery drivers ask me to share my location. I hate it.
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I've seen this too in a meta moderation center. They were real sticklers for this. Even personal headphones were not allowed. I don't think this is legal in EU but for that kind of low-level work they tend to get away with that.
Last thing anyone wants is exfiltration of the content meta moderates ... I see no EU regulation that would give employees a right to play with their phone on the job.
However this company was super abusive anyway. Putting pressure on people to work nights and weekends etc. It was a subcontractor.
In the end meta replaced them all by AI moderation and fired thousands of people in one go.
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It provides a right to privacy if the company allows personal messaging services on the device, but I don't think it provides a right to having personal messaging apps on the device(s). Personally I think it's much cleaner to keep work stuff on your work device(s) and personal stuff on personal devices. The only place that gets sticky is where companies don't provide the device but want you to have work information o…
It is a right in EU to have some level of personal activity on work-supplied devices. This does not come from the GDPR but some other legislation. We had a call with HR about that only recently when some leader again suggested "just block xyz on work devices". And if you don't want to use BYOD we are required to supply a phone if we require employees to use one (which we do, for MFA).
However they can not reduce private social life to zero at work [1]. And there the employees are guaranteed privacy. NB: This was pre GDPR.
This however does not go so far, that people must be allowed private chatting apps on work phones. They can and should use their private phones.
[1]https://www.jacksonboyd.co.uk/barbulescu-v-romania-work-rela...
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I have my work items on a separate network as well but my motivation is more not trusting some random item being pushed down from corp and having it scan my network or something.
Yeah I'm about to do this too just to be safe. Some of our antimalware like SentinelOne actually does this by default though we have switched it off for privacy reasons (EU)
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Which is actually a good reason for entities subject to GDPR to forbid use of personal messaging apps on work devices... (And to forbid users to use work / official apps for personal messaging.)
That sounds like a simple solution but it is not that simple, employees have a right to use work tools for personal reasons too within reason. And GDPR explicitly forbids personal items to be released during discovery even to jurisdictions that require that.