The other day a friend of mine was talking to me about a tech startup based out of California that is designing an app for employers that, once installed, monitors all user-app interaction as well as an employee's personal data connection. This means that the employer will be able to see what apps you use, what internet sites you visit on your 3G or 4G plan, and things like your text messages, recent calls, camera, notes, etc. The app can also be configured to blcok access to certain apps on your phone during business hours as well.
Naturally, I was appalled when I heard about this. My employer having any access to pictrues, phone calls, text messages, internet connection, etc. is an absoltue FUCK NO. I understand if they block sites on my office for security/productivity purposes, but blocking MY apps on MY data plan that I pay for? Hell no. I don't want my employer knowing that I have IBS when I text my wife to purchase a remedy for me. I don't want my employer blockign access to my phone when I'm on my lunchbreak. I also don't want the owners of the app to have any of that data stored, which I know they will.
However, when I asked my sister about this, she really didn't seem to care. I asked her fi she would ever work for a company that required their employees to download this app and she said "well yeah if I wanted the job. It's not a big deal."
Does privacy between eployees and employers have no value anymore? Am I living in the past? Would you work for someone who required this app upon employment?