Right?
By the way, for the record, I love my t job.
Sent on an android phone on at&t network
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I am on a personal device and an In Private VPN and just checked my Privacy and Services
for Blocked trackers. I only use this in private VPN for this site for T and IBM. I had 1,470 IBM trackers blocked and 31 T. What does that tell you?
Their legal team is well greased as evident by their ongoing ability to break the law, blow smoke up the governments rear end and get away with it. I doubt a lowly attorney would even consider a case.
Not just an ATT thing, but money and power are typically above the law in the good 'ole USA and they known this.
Here is a different take on this question. What if you are NOT using an AT&T COU or AT&T service or product of any kind, and you like to post stuff here, on an anonymous website. What can they possibly do about it? Seems to me, nothing. Anything they do and try to bring retribution to you, will be cause to legal action against them as they’d have to be in breach of many computer security laws.
The company owns a COU or if you’ve chosen to bring your own device, they can legally pull any information from it because it’s similar to company email. They pay for it, they own it. Mining personal data from customer (which taking a discount doesn’t mean you aren’t a regular customer) subscriber lines is a whole different story.
The Code of Conduct can clear up any questions about posts from a COU or personal device on social media and platforms.
Worried about getting caught on this site? I'm on here on my COU probably every other week.
Studies have shown that the average American attention span is now less than that of a fruit fly. Thus, people responding to the OP about his corporate work phone.
Legally, AT&T would not be allowed to monitor your personal phone use for their own purposes. But AT&T would absolutely no moral reservations about doing so if they weren't worried about any chance of getting caught.
After all, AT&T will sell any and all user data to the government for a buck. Plus we all know AT&T monitors this site and has HR trolls posting here. This company has no ethics.
He was asking about a personal phone with T service so I am not sure why the replies about company owned devices.
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It usually stems from a comprehension issue...
They can do whatever they want and have proven many times they are above the law. Cohen anyone?
@hmy Obviously didn't read the original post. The OP clearly said PERSONAL PHONE.
But be careful anyway. I've heard of personal device/service receiving an employee discount opens you up to monitoring of your own personal device.
Oh, yes they can. They are legally allowed to monitor and review all of your action on any company device. That means your location, which websites you visit, whether you exchange data (i.e. post), and more.
They may not have keystroke monitoring, but they do have the ability and right to do other checks.
He was asking about a personal phone with T service so I am not sure why the replies about company owned devices.
Anything you do on an AT&T owned device, or service of which they pay for and provide to you for your use under their employ, including any data and information that you create using AT&T owned devices, software and services, is an asset of AT&T. It's their property, not yours. As a result, they can and will do anything they desire to any and all of it.
Don't be a dummy and come here on AT&T PC on AT&T network and point your browser here and start talking smack and think that you got rights.
Any and all company-owned devices are subject to monitor. Period.
T couldn't legally bribe Michael Cohen with $600K "for insights into the administration's thinking," but they did.
The federal government established a foothold inside of our Class-5 COs that allowed duplication and collection of all traffic that rides the fiber entering/exiting the country (not just metadata, but actual voice and data as well). When this was declared illegal, nothing stopped, the feds just handed it all off to their loyal lap dogs at AT&T, and are supposed to get a warrant for any specific collection the feds require.
But AT&T still has this capability, as well as the capability of using metadata collected from cell towers to determine where calls and data enter and exit the system. They've long used that to sell your location to whoever will pay, supposedly to advertise to you based on your being near something that indicates your preferences.
Chances are good that they aren't going to find you inside the mass of voice and data they collect and store forever (no requirement that they ever get rid of the data they've been collecting), but let's just say that I use another carrier for my personal phone, and even that is registered in my wife's name, as some calls are bound to find their way onto AT&T's massive network, and Verizon and probably the others have similar arrangements with the federal government.
This post was not made from a phone, but from a PC with VPN and proxy server.
We all love our AT&T jobs, but know that love is completely unrequited. :)