iOS 9.3 Will Tell You If Your Employer Is Monitoring Your iPhone (mashable.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Nobody likes being monitored. But even if you suspected your company is following your activities on the iPhone, would you know where to check? In the next iteration of its smartphone operating system, iOS 9.3, Apple is looking to make this an easier task. According to Reddit user MaGNeTiX, the latest beta of iOS 9.3 has a message telling users their iPhone is being supervised. The message is as prominent as can be, both on the device's lock screen and in the About section. "This iPhone is managed by your organization," the message on the lock screen says. And in the About screen, you get a little more detail, with a message saying your iPhone's supervisor can monitor your Internet traffic and locate your device.

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Even better

[PPH]

Include an alert if your phone has negotiated an unencrypted connection with the nearest "cell tower" (aka Stingray). Like my Motorola Razr v3 does.

There's always a workaround...

[__aaclcg7560]

I worked at a company where the management team got very insecure about their positions and thought that the regular employees were out to get them. So they got a program to remotely monitor desktops. One morning my manager came running over to my cubicle to inform me that I wasn't allowed to look at Amazon on company time. And then he discovered that I had a breakfast burrito from the roach coach in hand, which meant I was on my break and I'm allowed to look at the Internet on my break time. So I told him to bugger off. Since the company next door had an open wireless access point, many of my coworkers used their PDA's to browse the internet to avoid using their PCs.

Re:You should but how many will?

[unixisc]

This one I agree w/ you.

I have 2 phones. One purely for personal use, another purely for work use (not issued by any employer, so b/w jobs, I keep using it for job searches & the like). My family doesn't know the number of the latter. My colleagues don't know the number of the first.

If any employer needed me to BYOD, I'd take the latter and let them do what they wanted w/ it. My personal photos & stuff wouldn't live there. That way, I leave one phone at risk, while playing merrily w/ the other. I have reset this several times, and will.

Re:To access their network

[Anonymous Coward]

Our company does this. Recently they have been thinking about instituting a policy that you can only have corporate mail on it - no gmail, outlook.com, comcast, yahoo, whatever other email. Add on their 8 digit PIN requirement and it really comes down to "I just bought the company a phone" if you are foolish enough to BYOD...

Re:You should but how many will?

[NormalVisual]

I had a bit of a row with management a couple of years back over this. They wanted me to install Outlook on my personal phone, and I refused because of the remote management capabilities. I don't care who you are, it's not your phone and I'm not going to give you the ability to remote wipe it, monitor me, have access to passwords, etc. If it's important enough that I need to be able to be contacted via cell phone, then give me a company phone expressly for that purpose and don't be surprised if it gets left at home when I go out.