Woman allegedly fired for deleting iPhone app that monitored her 24/7

[Teddy Pollins]

Woman allegedly fired for deleting iPhone app that monitored her 24 7 - CNET
Second phone. Take the one with the app to work, and when not at work have that phone forward all calls and texts to a second phone without the app.
Expensive, I know, but I think a "sales executive" might be able to swing it.

 

[Asclepias]

Not to much she can do about it if she cant prove it was because she deleted the app. California is at will employment.

 

[SmarterThanTheAverageBear]

and here we have another idiot who believes that a company is required to give her her "rights"

Hey idiot, you have the right to not work there if you feel they are invading your privacy.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Woman allegedly fired for deleting iPhone app that monitored her 24 7 - CNET
Second phone. Take the one with the app to work, and when not at work have that phone forward all calls and texts to a second phone without the app.
Expensive, I know, but I think a "sales executive" might be able to swing it.

1. Don't install the app, it's private property if it's your phone.
2. Use their phone with the app install, leave it on 24/7, and when not working leave it in a mailbox in a mail center and pick it up and drop it off each day. If they need to reach you after hours they can use your after-hours phone, which they don't own.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

and here we have another idiot who believes that a company is required to give her her "rights"

Hey idiot, you have the right to not work there if you feel they are invading your privacy.

True, although there's no reason why they needed to track her during non-business hours, and she was making 7K a month, which most people don't just walk away from.

 

[charwin95]

Part of our business is service hospital, labs, research. We have approximately 5,200 direct service engineers all over the country. We provide mini vans with GPS to carry critical service parts and smart phones.
This policy is only applicable to service engineers. We track these employees so we know where, when, what and why they are working on. We only tracked them during their 40 hours work making sure they are with in their territory or when dispatch or overtime.
During interviews and orientations people are made aware of this policy. Then signed making sure they understand the penalties if anyone try to remove these apps.
We only track them when they are dispatched, inside the hospital etc., overtime. They are also made aware that they can be tracked any time.
Before the GPS we were accumulating massive overtime. With the combination of smartphones OT was cut to about 90%.

 

[waltky]

Court orders suspect to provide fingerprint to unlock iPhone...

US Court orders Touch ID iPhone unlock
3 May 2016 - A US court has made a woman unlock her iPhone with her fingerprint.

Magistrate Alicia G Rosenburg signed a seizure warrant for the "fingerprint on iPhone device" of Paytsar Bkhchadzhyan, of Los Angeles, on 25 February, while she was in police custody. It authorised officers to "depress" her fingerprints on the sensor. Campaigners say making suspects decrypt their phones means they are testifying against themselves, which contravenes the US constitution's fifth amendment.

Apple's Touch ID system is one of two ways to unlock the encrypted contents of an iPhone - the other being to input the passcode. But the fingerprint can be used only within 48 hours of the phone being locked. It has been argued that while a passcode is "contents of the mind", and thus protected under the fifth amendment, a fingerprint is physical evidence, and can be treated like a blood sample or prints recovered from a crime scene.

Apple's Touch ID system being demonstrated on iPhone​

University of Dayton law professor Susan Brenner said smartphones contained a great deal of personal information and "a lot of that could be incriminating". "By showing you opened the phone, you showed that you have control over it," she said. "It is the same as if she went home and pulled out paper documents - she has produced it." If a person could not refuse to put their finger on a biometric reader to decrypt data for the government, "then encryption really isn't worth much", said Prof Brenner. "The result would be we would create content at our peril, as we would have no way to secure it from state investigators."

Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, a man remains in jail for refusing to decrypt two hard drives investigators suspect contain indecent images of children. In that case, the Electronic Frontier Foundation campaign group said compelling suspects to decrypt data violated fifth amendment rights. "Complying with the order would communicate facts that are not foregone conclusions already known to the government," it said.

US Court orders Touch ID iPhone unlock - BBC News

 

[Broncho4]

I may have missed it but I didn't see who owned the phone? Was it her property or did the company provide it? The company has no right to demand that she install an app on her private property. If it is provided or paid for by them, she has no right to refuse or delete it. It seems like an open and shut case.