Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> Is My Boss Reading My Personal E-mail?
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> | Your employer can monitor all electronic communication
> | to and from work equipment, especially when it's sent
> | over the corporate network
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http://yahoo.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2006/tc20061025_457356.htm
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Yes we do monitor emails but we do it openly. The users have signed
agreements on the use of company computers and the company has a
responsibility too. I have even shown those interested what is used to
monitor emails and Internet access. The law makes it clear that emplotees
using company computers can place the company on the wrong side of the law
or an illegal agreement.
No one is going to sift through the thousands of emails every day though, so
a scanner to pick out any key words is all that you can really do, in fact
patterns over time tend to make more sense in this area. Also the users
themselves are much more aware than they used to be so are much more
carefull of what they put into emails, there was a time when they were
viewed as a sort of slow chat room, a bit of that still goes on, but
generally they view them in the same light as snail-mail now.
Once employees know that you can monitor emails and internet access, you
could probably switch off monitoring, only a tiny part of our entire
Internet traffic in company time is non-company stuff. Lunch times tends to
be ebay and mothers getting free stuff off some of the baby accessory web
sites. A couple of weeks ago a new web site popped up on my lists and every
women in the place seems to have been on it, I did look to see what it was
and it turned out to be some Star's (I never heard of her) perfume launch
and you could get it free so they all got some.
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> Can FOSS save your privacy?
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> | Well, the Bush regime has already claimed "we don't need no steenkin
> | warrant" to listen to your phone calls, see what websites you visit,
> | scan your emails, and now, with the revelation of a new
> | "signing statement", it?s even claiming the authority to read your
> | physical mail. When the government becomes the biggest threat to
> | your privacy, you better take advantage of the legion of privacy
> | advocates creating FOSS to help you retain what little bit of privacy
> | you can still have.
> |
> | [...]
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> | However, just because your privacy is being threatened doesn't mean
> | you have to accept it. There is a growing array of FOSS being
> | developed to provide us with the ability to control our privacy.
> | It's about time we all start using it.
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> http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/can_foss_save_your_privacy
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I can't understand why this sort of thing upsets people. No one is the least
bit interested in your emails or your web browsing.
All they are interested in it catching criminals and terrorists. So if you
visit a child porn site, they are likely to have a look at you, and quite
right too. If you and your mates are planning to blow up a couple of towers
in newyork, and they somehow know about it, then they will look at you,
still the right action in my view.
But if you are writing to ask your mum what colour jumper you should wear
today, no one is listening. The strange part is that when you hear those
that grumble about being watched or listened too, they tend to either be
the dullest people in the world and no one would be the least interested in
watching what they get up to, or they are criminal types.
The more cameras and monitors the better in my view, give the police and
security services all the tecnology they can muster to track down the
illegal and the disgusting.
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