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Would this include legally mandated things, remote install and management or are you talking about screen scrapers ?

Personally I would think that anything supported at the office is fair game for the wfh office, with some reservation for recording of audio and video.

If you do feel that audio and video are off limits then what is your views on face recognition to unlock your phone and Alexa and her peers?

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My reaction to this was it’s their laptop, and wfh doesn’t really change that. I don’t even care about network sniffing, but man camera and mic access seems iffy. At least camera I can physically block.

I do think there’s a difference between an Alexa and my employer getting 24 access to my mic. By being in more people’s houses Alexa is much more likely to be detected if doing something nefarious, and the choice to risk it is entirely up to me. Find a new job is much harder than the alternative to voice command

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