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Re:Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees by marssaxman on Thursday February 21, 2019 @08:25PM (#19222304)
This all sounds completely normal. Do people actually imagine that the hardware they use at work is somehow theirs, and not their employer's?

"Keep a hard boundary between your work and personal systems" has always been the right answer. I am surprised that this does not seem obvious to everyone.

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Re:Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees by int_19h on Thursday February 21, 2019 @10:38PM (#19222914)
"used to conduct the business of the company" is not the same as "employer's hardware".
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Re:Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees by scottlamb on Friday February 22, 2019 @01:07AM (#19223484)
That's the employee's choice, though. I log in to my @google.com account with my personal phone, but I don't have to. If I'd rather keep personal and work totally separate, I can request a Google-issued phone to carry alongside my personal one. I have teammates who do this.
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Re:Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees by Bartweiss on Friday February 22, 2019 @12:19PM (#19227048)
I agree that this doesn't seem odd in general. After the recent Facebook security team news, though, I'd want to be very careful about the exact definition of 'company systems' at Google.

I'm sure the standard usage is only about job-related hardware and accounts, but if my employer's product was my source for personal driving directions, email, and web searches, I'd want a contract that didn't transform those into employment-related activities.

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