[oauea]

This is such a hilariously American post. I realize most of this forum is American, but still. :-)

[ghaff]

And it's not really representative of the US. I work for anything but a tiny startup on a personal MacBook and no one is monitoring everything I do.

[jjav]

> on a personal MacBook and no one is monitoring everything I do

Well you said personal MacBook, this topic is about work laptop or phone.

These days (sadly) for any non-small company, all work computers and phones have remote control spyware. If you think that's not the case in your large company, you're probably wrong.

At a recent medium size engineering company, I was constantly surprised how even extremely technical engineers in the company didn't realize all the company spyware that is running on their laptop.

[ghaff]

The standard Linux laptops people are given are fully company-managed. But many people, including myself, reload them with a distribution we manage ourselves.

I do have MDM on my personal iPhone but that seemed like a reasonable tradeoff in order to easily access work email and files on my phone.

[sagichmal]

I know, right ;)