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Tracking apps monitor remote employees’ performance — and invade their privacy
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When you're at work and using work devices, you have no reasonable expectation of privacy. Just because you take the laptop home doesn't make it suddenly your personal device. It makes it a liability to you.
Never ever log in to a personal account for anything at work, because you shouldn't trust your work with your privacy. If you do, you should just know you need to immediately change your password because it's now on a cleartext log file somewhere where many humans can read it. Consider it compromised.
It's the best practice to always assume work devices are compromised, but it doesn't mean this is right. This is dystopian
I don't mean compromised, I mean your IT manager has an acceptable use policy, which all staff agree to in writing, and the IT folks have to pass audits that say they can assure management they know what happens in the company network.
I agree that keyloggers are dystopian, and honestly overkill unless you are paranoid about proprietary data. But you should follow the same philosophy as your network architecture: Zero Trust.
if it is recording its environment like with mic and cam then yes it is pretty much compromised.