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I don't think any employer should be able to access personal communications from its employees.

Posted by Loyola Dec 14 '09, 11:14

You could just about concede the point (though I'm not sure that I do) that the employer has a right to limit the volume of personal communications sent by its staff, but to go so far as to say that because the employer owns the equipment upon which the personal communications were sent, that that automatically gives them the right to be privy to said comms, is beyond the pale.

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I don't think it's unreasonable to expect an employee to conduct their personal stuff on their personal equipment. - Agent.Vermin Dec 14, 11:30 1
- I could imagine a situation where the boss calls an employee into the office and says "Look you've been sending 50 personal emails a day. Now I don't - Loyola Dec 14, 11:36
I have access to all comms that use our servers, and from a legal standpoint it's in the companies best interest to have that. That said - scorpion Dec 14, 11:20 8
- I don't have a dog in the hunt about this, as they say, but I will say the rights of an individual to privacy should not be checked at the employer's - Loyola Dec 14, 11:30 3
  - And don't think I don't treat VP's with the same scrutiny as I do the floor sweeper, any CEO that wants to be above reproach doesn't hire me -- nm - scorpion Dec 14, 11:36
  - The company owns all data and corospondance as a function of continuing to do business, email is nothing more than data. -- nm - scorpion Dec 14, 11:34
  - The rights aren't checked at the door. Their rights are restricted when using company property. The employer has - TWuG Dec 14, 11:33
- Can you read their gmail if you want to? - psilotum Dec 14, 11:29 3
  - HTTPS is harder, you need to intercept on hte equipment it self. Non HTTPS is not really hard with ARP cashe poison -- nm - scorpion Dec 14, 11:40
  - Anything can be intercepted and decrypted, if you have enough time and resources. - Beryllium Dec 14, 11:31 1
    - Was just going to say that....I know the tools and how to use them, but it's never come up so far. -- nm - scorpion Dec 14, 11:34
What if a civilian employee of the local police station abuses the caller ID of the police station to impersonate an officer and steal money? -- nm - Beryllium Dec 14, 11:16 2
- *kick* -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 14, 11:18
- Save for official police investigations into criminal offences obviously. -- nm - Loyola Dec 14, 11:17
Don't use your work computer for personal communications. Case closed. And if you do, use HTTPS to access the website -- nm - oblique Dec 14, 11:15 1
- *Ding* -- nm - scorpion Dec 14, 11:22

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I don't think any employer should be able to access personal communications from its employees.

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