Does Skie record audio or video on managed devices?

Skie for Enterprise · Updated

Short answer

No. Skie does not record audio or video, does not turn on the microphone or camera remotely and does not capture photos. Photo and audio capture is not part of the product. Organisations that want to control the camera can switch it off by policy with the disable camera setting.

Skie manages a device. It does not watch or listen through it. There is no function that activates the microphone or camera in the background, no remote screen viewing and no photo capture, and none of those are offered as options.

What the organisation can do about the camera is restrict it. The disable camera setting is optional and off by default. A school that wants no camera in exam rooms, or a company that wants none on a shop-floor tablet, can switch it off at the organisation, school, branch or group level. Everything else about the camera is the normal Android behaviour.

This sits alongside the rest of Skie's privacy stance: no message reading, no call logs, no hidden mode. Because the data is not collected, it is not stored, and a support engineer or administrator cannot see it.

If a parent asks whether the school can listen to their child, the answer is a plain no, and it is no for both technical and policy reasons. You can add to it that the device shows it is managed.

A practical tip: if you decide to disable the camera for a group, tell students and parents, and give a reason. A camera that does not work without explanation produces support tickets. Pair the setting with an exception route for projects that need it, such as a different group or a lesson-length change.