"Duo", An App My Job Wants Us To Add To Our Phones.

[Ninurta]

Definitely ask for a company phone. 

You should not be forced to use your personal for work unless they are willing to pay for it.

@"NightskyeB4Dawn" ☝☝☝☝☝

Take the government cell ... and only use it during duty hours.

Remember ... especially in your line of work ... that the implied tasks that come with carrying a phone change your pay status.  You move from 'whatever' to stand-by.  Stand-by status is usually a 10% increase in your base pay (at least it is on the Fed side). If you work for the Fed, take the phone, and then make an appointment at CPAC/CPOC to get your PD updated. When you retire, you can split the difference in your retirement pay with me. 

I would not right now make any noise about a raise in pay. They just raised our pay by a "significant" amount, less than a year ago. Most of what I have ever asked for, they have given me, without much of a fight. In fact, they are always asking me, what I need.

This is not about money. I just don't want any more of my personal information sitting in a government database, than is absolutely necessary. Though even that point is probably mute.

Having started life being raised on military bases, growing up as an Army brat, working for the Navy, after high school, having spent four years in the Air Force, and my father working for the CIA, they probably already have a file on me greater than the encyclopedia Britannica.

At this stage of my life, and working for the State, this file would likely be named, "Epilogue".

Your only option that I can see is to get a secondary device, whether GI or personally purchased, to use for work only. A cheap Wally World "smart" phone or a cheap tablet ought to do the trick. The only thing that device will know about you is "she's a forensic nurse, and handles grotie shit", and they already have that data on you, so no harm done.

You would be amazed what most folks keep on their electronics. I once hacked my sister's computer from half a world away, and ransacked it to get all sorts of data. Then I messaged her and asked her if she wanted an "internet cup holder", and when she said "sure", I popped out her CD tray from way over there. The I zipped up all her data - banking data, where her kids whet to school, just all kinds of stuff, and e-mailed it to her with a note - "you've got too much personal data on your computer, and that makes you a sitting duck. Fix it."

With a work-only device, and enough self control to keep it work only, then only work related data sits there, and they already have all that info.

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