Even Google’s proposed standard includes a button to turn it off if you don’t want it. You can just refuse to use websites that use the feature, like you can with EME.
That’s already the case with most corporate managed BYO device policies. The typical scenario is that an employer gives you the choice:
Use the company-owned and company-managed device. No root/admin access, no privileges to install unauthorized software, sometimes policies against personal accounts or files or use.
Bring your own device, but consent to the company’s IT department managing your security and potentially monitoring your use. If you’re going to connect this device to the company’s LAN (through wifi or VPN or otherwise), you’re going to let us lock it down.
It’s a legitimate concern that these types of things would normalize corporate-managed devices in our personal lives as consumers, and worth resisting in that space, but I don’t think it would actually change the status quo in the corporate world to go from proprietary device management lockdowns to some kind of public standard for lockdowns.
Which is exactly why I will never do 2. Provide a device if you want control. I will not give you the ability to wipe my personal phone remotely just to check my work email on it.
Yes, but that hasn’t stopped anyone before. There are tons of exam systems where you need to install invasive software, for both school and professional training, with some random low-wage worker on the other side of the world peering through your webcam while you use it. We’ve lost this battle years ago.
There was a lawsuit regarding this just recently, where a student successfully sued over a room scan for an exam. It’s absolutely ridiculous and shouldn’t be tolerated by any student.
Even Google’s proposed standard includes a button to turn it off if you don’t want it. You can just refuse to use websites that use the feature, like you can with EME.
That works until you are forced to interact with a website that only works with it, either by work or school.
That’s already the case with most corporate managed BYO device policies. The typical scenario is that an employer gives you the choice:
It’s a legitimate concern that these types of things would normalize corporate-managed devices in our personal lives as consumers, and worth resisting in that space, but I don’t think it would actually change the status quo in the corporate world to go from proprietary device management lockdowns to some kind of public standard for lockdowns.
Which is exactly why I will never do 2. Provide a device if you want control. I will not give you the ability to wipe my personal phone remotely just to check my work email on it.
Exactly. If you’re going to lock down and control a device I’m going to need that device provided to me.
Yes, but that hasn’t stopped anyone before. There are tons of exam systems where you need to install invasive software, for both school and professional training, with some random low-wage worker on the other side of the world peering through your webcam while you use it. We’ve lost this battle years ago.
but that doesn’t scale as well so I am unlikeley to run into that most of the time
There was a lawsuit regarding this just recently, where a student successfully sued over a room scan for an exam. It’s absolutely ridiculous and shouldn’t be tolerated by any student.
Sure. Trust them to keep that button around… :)