just for clarity:
Your employer is the business that pays you, not the guy who hired you, not your line manger, not his line manager, not the CEO... your employer unless you work for a sole trader not a person.
We don't know what contracts are signed, and what welcome banners are present, all I'm saying is that increasingly, more and more companies are putting these kinds of things into affect.
as for tracking your mobile.
again, your mobile connected to your network then no they can't trace it. so when you're at home, then can't (or shouldn't spy on you), connect using your cellular plan, then they have no reason to "spy" on you.
put data on
their network and it's not
your data any more. (i,e deep packet inspection is fine for ISPs, it's your data, their network) including data from your personal mobile.
My boss has never questioned me about using my phone whilst at work, and its mainly I use it every now and then
just to be clear, you *do* use your phone when you should be working, but you think it's OK, because you manage to hit your targets anyway?
couldn't without a good reason,
you're on probation, they can just let you go, change their mind etc. again it depends on the specific nature of the contracts you signed.
a lot of people take probation as a short term contract. in effect, they wouldn't get rid of you they would just not extend your contract.
there's a possibility they tampered with my keyboard, to gain access to my login details,
specifically, I'm not just trying to side with your company, but they fiddled with
their keyboard, attached to
their computer running
their software connected to
their network and
their internet powered by
their electricity.
and as I said, whilst nobody here has seen your contract, it maybe that you already signed a company policy that allows them to do that, (and they don't need to ask again when they enforce or don't enforce monitoring clauses. they don't need to "let you know")
my expectation is that they pulled off the "hack" in one of a few ways.
either you had connected to their wifi, and didn't realize.
or:
you had logged into your gmail account, they have stolen the password and logged in using a different computer.
or:
your what's app is sync'd with an email account. and they have signed into what's app on another device using your details that they have stolen.
or:
they have installed software on your phone.
But notice, like I said earlier, the last ones: logging in "as you" using your password, or installing softwware on
your devices without your knowledge are almost certainly criminal, regardless of how they obtained the password.
(e.g I could tell you my password, but it's still illegal for you to log in as me and access my data. - but it's not illegal for you to analyze that data if I access or store that data on your systems (hence Deep packet inspection at ISP level, targeted advertising in Gmail etc.)
you can contact the police,
this is very true, and the part about evidence. though to be fair, I'm not sure what evidence you have...
You say that you think that your boss is out to get you, because went and told on another employee that he manages to his boss. and now you think that there is a conspiracy involving several departments of the company hacking your passwords and watching your every move on whatapp, and you base this theory on something that you believe that you overheard?
Before you reset your phone, - which would erase whatever they have put on there, I'd have a look at the running programs, access using root and search for running programs that may be hidden from the task manager.
i guess they planned to force me to leave
do you really
want to work for a company like that. - it's unlikely that they are going to sack everyone else around you. so lets that that your *win* and your boss is found out as a really bad person who has been spying on you in an illegal way.
what's next? he's not going to jail for this, so chances are you'll still have to work with/for him. he'll still be your boss.
