MDM Intune Grants Company Admin Access to Personal Phones
Employees required to install Microsoft Intune on personal devices are unknowingly granting their employer full administrative control. This BYOD policy gap creates a serious privacy violation and forces workers to choose between job access and personal data security. No current solution cleanly separates corporate MDM from personal device autonomy.
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