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Privacy Is Power (and we must take it back)

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Re: Privacy Is Power (and we must take it back)

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I wonder how hard it is going to be for employers to accommodate those who seek to be private. Specifically, I was going to switch from using an iPhone to a phone running Graphene OS but I must have a few apps (Okta Verify, Duo Mobile, Splunk On Call, MS Outlook, MS Teams) which aren't available via F-Droid. And this is separate from the HR bribery of adding fitness trackers to your device that give your medical insurance company a 24/7 fix on your location in order to verify you're doing the walking you say you are in order to get the HSA bribery dollars being waved about.

Re: Privacy Is Power (and we must take it back)

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I wonder how hard it is going to be for employers to accommodate those who seek to be private. Specifically, I was going to switch from using an iPhone to a phone running Graphene OS but I must have a few apps (Okta Verify, Duo Mobile, Splunk On Call, MS Outlook, MS Teams) which aren't available via F-Droid. And this is separate from the HR bribery of adding fitness trackers to your device that give your medical insu…

Ask for a corporate device. Turn it off at 5pm, don't use it for your own personal use, put it in a Faraday cage and soundproof case if you're being paranoid.

Maybe you own a Nokia 3310 for what your corporate overlord knows.