Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Can Your Company Turn Off Your Phone?

The answer, amazingly, is yes. If you've set up your personal cell phone to connect to an exchange server, the company's IT personnel can and will send a kill command if they feel you are sharing private company information. Read that again, your personal cell phone.

Then again, the kill order can also be sent out by mistake, such as it happened to Amanda Stanton in this NPR news story.

Several of my co-workers don't think twice about having IT connect their personal phone to the exchange server. However, the possibility for outside control of one's personal phone should make employees think twice about making themselves available during off-hours. Don't you think?



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