"Personal data to legal is like toxic waste, they don't want to touch it," .

Nevertheless, the privacy issue threatens to stymie BYOD adoption. It took Ingram Micro months to draft a BYOD policy. It's a lengthy process that can hold up progress, says Adam Noble, CIO at GAF Materials, a manufacturer of roofing materials, which also just put the final legal touches on a BYOD policy.

"Initially, everyone was going BYOD," says Noble. "But we're starting to see some pullback," with policies and privacy getting in the way.

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