The worry springs from marrying mobile location tracking features, such as GPS and triangulation, with mobile device management (MDM) that can record such information and also identify the apps that users install on their and tablets.

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This data is potentially available to employers because in many BYOD policies workers typically agree to accept a client MDM app or agent on their personal device, setting up a connection with the MDM . That tradeoff also often gives employers the right and the power to delete personal files and content, along with corporate data, in a remote wipe if the device is lost or stolen. "Unless they are specifically informed through an acceptable user agreement and mobile policy, many employees have no idea that this is possible," according to a statement by , an MDM software vendor based in Blue Bell, Pa.

The vendor commissioned Harris to do the survey, which polled 2,243 enterprise workers.

Eighty-two percent of the respondents said they consider such location tracking to be an "invasion of their privacy," according to Fiberlink's summary of the findings. The findings were also summarized in a .