I believe you’re the one who’s confused. No one is walking in on you to catch you in the act. The article clearly states this is just inspections and going through the room.

Putting a do not disturb is only ignored if you’re not in the room, they’re still gonna knock.

Id love to see where they’re busting in on your ass, show me the people they’ve done and ill admit I’m confused. So far it just sounds like an overinvasive form of what they already did when they cleaned the room while you may still be staying* there.

They will come by at a later time. The OP i responded to was making it sound like they will bust in while you are there. I am only saying no, they’ll do it when you’re not in the room, as most hotels will do already.

Yeah, no where did it say they will walk in on your ass having sex. Maybe you should actually read the article.

Or you just walk up to the person and say “Hey. I’m in here…”

I mean if you’re in the room you can atleast stop them from doing that rather easily.

Definitely search on your own, I was only going based off this. Could be fixed by now!

No, what I’m saying is that if Wire still sends the passwords for the encryption in plaintext to their servers, thats bad. Signal doesn’t do that afaik.

Your right, they could just read any of your messages if they feel like it however. Wouldn’t you rather have a phone number associated with an unreadable account? Or no “personally identifying info (besides your entire device…)” but Wire can read and see all of what you send.

I guess in your case you’re just financially secure enough to never have to worry.

I didn’t back track at all, its always been a contract. I’ve seen this happen, and its the reason why I would never tell someone to ever allow company material on a personal phone, this isn’t even some obscure advice, it should be well known.

Stop trying to sound like you know everything when you’ve specifically said you’ve never experienced this. It has happened, it can happen, it will happen. Put yourself in a safe position by never allowing company apps, material, email, anything on a personal phone.

Yes, that is how contracts work, similar to how Terms and Conditions generally allow websites to take any data they’d like from you, and sign away rights like class action law suits. Contracts can also say that if you have work property on your phone, they have every right to take your phone.

You clearly have never worked somewhere where said company requires you to have a work app, and it shows.

There is no law, because its not illegal to do. Or maybe I’m wrong and their is a law specifically saying its okay to do this.

Bottom line? Any time work has told me to get a work related app, or whenever it was hinted at, you can bet your ass that they’ll have some you sign something as well.

I’ve also heard plenty of stories that this has happened. Don’t learn the hard way by installing work related apps on your personal phone.

Not to mention the few times I’ve told work that I simply will not install a work related app, and have gotten work phones.

If your phone contains company material they absolutely can and will. Including the US. You were only lucky because you had a union that was on your side. The vast majority of Americans are not in a union and would not be afforded this luxury.

Speaking of, it was actually my Union jobs that allowed me to demand a work specific phone. If I was in your position I would have demanded they give me a work phone if it required a work app

You realize even if its isolated that if anything ever goes wrong at work, they have every right to take your phone yeah?

Never put work things on a personal phone. I don’t know if im just lucky, or if you have every right to do this but; if work requires putting something on your phone, make them buy you a new phone, a work specific phone. I’ve had to sign a few contracts ensuring the phone lives, but I’ve atleast never had to hand over a personal phone for work.

(With the added benefit of being able to turn off my work phone and being fully free from work)

Would there be any way to enshrine privacy/no chat control for the EU? Similar to constitutional amendments in the states, where it becomes exceptionally more difficult to revoke?

Bluewallet, bitcoin. I’ve found quite a few Bitcoin Kiosks in the wild (U.S), which still requires a 20, but can go a long way with no need to identify yourself anywhere.

Personally I’ve used it a few times, I tend to get my answer significantly easier than wading through the shit results DDG has been giving me.

Tor is also so ungodly slow as a browser. At least in mt experience many years ago. Plus one on the VPN. Best way to stay hidden unless someone REALLY wants to know who you are, and has big money behind them.

This only works when using Mobile Data. You will most likely have the same WAN address if using WiFi. Dynamic WAN addresses do change periodically, however at the whim of your ISP. Now unless you pay for a static IP address, this local WAN address is also useless. Hell even a static IP address doesn’t open you up to much harm.

As far as geolocation goes: IP’s are given in blocks, no one will be able to get your precise location, only what ever your ISP is broadcasting.

My location will sometimes show Seattle, other times MPLS, all depends on whichever route it takes.

But are you on wifi or mobile data, gotta know before doing absolutely nothing with that information

Face paint would be mind blowing, what will all the football fans do?

Its gotten like three updates in the last month. I will agree the refresh issue is annoying.

The developer has done a fine job at adding requested features, and fixing most bugs that come up as long as you let them know.