FWIW: I never do personal stuff on company hardware. I always assume that anything I do on company hardware can be tracked, even if no one is deliberately trying to track me.
I think you have 4 options:
- If you use a company-provided computer, install it on their computer. It's their computer, not yours.
- If you use your own computer, set up a VM for this client and install the agent in the VM. Then do your day-to-day work inside of the VM.
- If you use your own computer, buy / expense a dedicated computer for the job
- Politely refuse to install it and accept the consequences. (IE, you might be out of a job.)
Remember that you are paid to do a job. If you don't like the conditions of the job, you can always walk away. As an earlier poster mentioned, this tool appears rather benign.
Regarding company hardware and tracking: Many companies set up things like automatic backups, snapshotting, ect. These aren't meant to track you, but if you're doing personal stuff on your computer, it's very easy to accidentally leak things into the company backup that you might not want there.
I think you have 4 options:
- If you use a company-provided computer, install it on their computer. It's their computer, not yours.
- If you use your own computer, set up a VM for this client and install the agent in the VM. Then do your day-to-day work inside of the VM.
- If you use your own computer, buy / expense a dedicated computer for the job
- Politely refuse to install it and accept the consequences. (IE, you might be out of a job.)
Remember that you are paid to do a job. If you don't like the conditions of the job, you can always walk away. As an earlier poster mentioned, this tool appears rather benign.
Regarding company hardware and tracking: Many companies set up things like automatic backups, snapshotting, ect. These aren't meant to track you, but if you're doing personal stuff on your computer, it's very easy to accidentally leak things into the company backup that you might not want there.