Your company is controlling your own personal computer or is it a "Company Provided Computer" for home use?
1. I would never allow a company to control my personal computer and one has never asked me to do that! The companies do NOT own the administrator rights to your personal computer so I think y'all must be talking about a company provided computer for home use, which of course is controlled by the Company. Yes, I can see them having a tracker loaded on a company provided computer/laptop that reports back to the company intranet server to see if their employees are working at home. This should also be known by the amount of work the employee accomplishes.
2. I'm in IT and work for a large DoD contractor company. Company provided computers do not give company users IMO/Admin privileges, therefore you cannot load any new programs/apps. This is done by design due to system accreditation security and company intranet remote access security. Company software baselines are tested and approved for system accreditation for an approved baseline, and new programs/apps need to be tested & approved before it makes the approval sys-accred list to be added. The company IMO can remote access the company provided computer and load approved programs/apps.
3. I remote access my company intranet all the time via my personal computer and I control what's on my computer. I do have GuardedID loaded on my laptop/computer, and MobileTrust on cell and tablet.
4. Company provided computer for home use -- since B13 used Google, that's most likely a company provided computer and Google controls what's loaded on the computer software baseline that goes by an approved system accreditation list. That does NOT mean in the future a company will not add SVC or PrivacyLok to the approved list after it's been thru the company security/system accred ringer first. When a company does add a new program/app, the Company IMO's can remote access company home computers and load the new capability.
All the best,
R2R
