The White House is ordering agencies to place its new app on all employees’ government phones
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The newly created, often overtly political app places the Trump administration into unprecedented and “dangerous” territory, IT experts say.
  • darkdemize@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    This is strictly for government-issued devices. So everyone that is subject to this is already carrying two phones.

    • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      As I have one for work which is not my personal phone. And it is totally enterprise-managed so they put whatever apps they want on it and block anything they want. It’s their phone essentially. This headline seems like a nothingburger to me.

    • FauxPseudo @lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 hours ago

      So like the phones of his secret service detail? I’m waiting for it to be announced that it’ll be bundled into the Trump phone.

      • darkdemize@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        3 hours ago

        For what it’s worth, I saw that it had been installed on my government issued phone this morning and was able to simply uninstall it.

        • FauxPseudo @lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 hours ago

          Some people won’t have admin control rights to do that. And by uninstalling it you are in violation of an executive order.

              • darkdemize@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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                1 hour ago

                Respectfully, I’ve been working in government for nearly 20 years. I know what my limits are and what I can get away with. I never signed any acknowledgement that I would keep the app on the phone. Worst case scenario and extremely unlikely to happen, they somehow notice it’s missing from my phone and ask me about it. “Oh, my bad. Didn’t know I wasn’t supposed to remove it.”