I’m non-techy. I work for a public school district and visit with kids in about a dozen schools. I like having my work email on my phone so teachers can get in touch if they need me. For years we’ve just used the outlook app with no real issues that I’ve noticed. We’re seeing more and more micromanagement and it sucks. We recently got notice that we have to install Cisco Duo on our phones if we want to have our email on it. Should i do that? Or just say no and be ok with being out of contact?

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    Do you have any concerns about having it? I mostly don’t want my phone activities or location tracked.

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      How specific? Most companies can tell if you are connecting to the mail server from an IP in a different city without needing any app to do that.

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          your IP will be the easy give away if they care to audit. a possible solution is to VPN to the campus and nat your traffic from a campus IP, but now we are getting into additional questionable action.

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      If you are accessing your work email through your phone, you’re going to be pinging the server with your phone’s IP address. Duo isn’t adding any tracking beyond that.

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      I’ve got duo; we had to have it at my uni for 2FA for our school emails. As far as I can tell it really isn’t very invasive. That said, I do think it tracks general location but I don’t believe it goes further than that.