Cellphone provider can see apps installed on device

radodomic

I was issued a corporate SIM card and was asked to sign a disclaimer noting that my corporation can view a list of apps installed on the device. OK, I can live with that, and I can always install the SIM card on a corporate phone.

However, curious to know, can a cellphone provider typically see the same information (and maybe sell it?). Are we typically giving consent to this in some small print somewhere?

Can grapheneOS somehow mask this info?

Blastoidea

I’m confused.

Are you calling your “corporation” (employer?) a “cellphone provider” or are you talking about the company whose towers you are using?

23Sha-ger

Are you sure they didn't mean a corporate device, with some kind of MDM software (aka remote management)?
A SIM card or provider don't have access to query that. They can do some traffic analysis based on DNS/IP to know
which websites you visit, but that's traffic analysis and not device/OS related.

radodomic

thanks, well the corporation is asking me to sign an agreement, in order to receive a corporate SIM tied to a cellphone provider i.e. the towers I am using. the agreement refers to the SIM, rather than the device. However, the agreement indeed mentions MDM (remote management). Not quite sure how they could do that, if there were no software on the device though i.e. if I bring my own device, which they allow

23Sha-ger

radodomic

That means you must install an MDM profile or app on your device, that app will have privileges to manage
your device. Essentially it gives them the ability to monitor apps on your phone, but it has nothing to do with
the SIM card or the carrier.

https://www.android.com/enterprise/management/

Blastoidea

23Sha-ger
Thanks.

radodomic

thanks I will ask them to clarify, hard to see how they can enforce the installation of an app or profile on a BYOD device