It depends how the MDM is implemented. If it allows locking and wiping the entire device, no. If it makes a sandbox for the work stuff, and it only grant them access to control, lock and wipe that sandbox then I don’t mind.
That’s what we do for personal devices, corporate devices are fully managed/supervised.
Typically, the app needs to ask for permissions like that, though. On Android, they need to ask to become a “Device admin”, and they need to specify what specifically they’ll use that access for. I imagine (though I’m unsure since it’s never happened to me) they need to ask to update those permissions if they want their uses to change.
It depends how the MDM is implemented. If it allows locking and wiping the entire device, no. If it makes a sandbox for the work stuff, and it only grant them access to control, lock and wipe that sandbox then I don’t mind.
That’s what we do for personal devices, corporate devices are fully managed/supervised.
Software is imperfect and you shouldn’t trust that future updates will not add that ability.
Typically, the app needs to ask for permissions like that, though. On Android, they need to ask to become a “Device admin”, and they need to specify what specifically they’ll use that access for. I imagine (though I’m unsure since it’s never happened to me) they need to ask to update those permissions if they want their uses to change.
Agreed, but its not perfect. I recall but couldn’t recover a link to a story about some application bypassing android or iPhone permissions.
Another big recent flaw allowed apps without the permission to draw over other apps.
https://blog.checkpoint.com/research/android-permission-security-flaw/
Yeah I don’t care about having a work profile.
Also there are cross the wall permissions in the special permissions in the settings in Android