Warning: What happens on your Android, doesn’t stay on your Android — not if it's a work phone.

In fairness, that is a different situation than this.

This is google basically providing a mechanism for employers and parents to pull text messages on devices on their plans. That wouldn’t impact BYOD as that is still not on their plan.

But all the management software and spyware already have those capabilities. Which… is the other aspect of this karma-bate post.

Every work phone, BYOD or not, has had the corporate profile stuff installed which already let them see most of everything. I just assumed this was more of the same. Shame on me for not reading the article.

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