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| Thread ID: 50850 | 2004-11-03 19:11:00 | Being monitored at work...... What's right and wrong? | Chilling_Silence (9) | Press F1 |
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| 287575 | 2004-11-03 19:11:00 | Greetings, I just got a phone call from a friend of mine who's just finished his night-shift at work. He was very alarmed when sitting at his desk a 'net send' message appeared saying "You look like you could use a coffee - here's a cup holder". His CD-Rom drawer then proceeded to open. He reakons he net-messaged the PC back and it was one of the IT guys working late. He's seen a lot of the word "tivoli" including "tivoli mobile computing" and in services has "tivoli remote control" - Which explains a few things he says. He's not been too specific but asked me if I knew what his rights were on being watched. He only uses the Internet during his Lunch break for personal surfing, but doesnt like the idea that all traffic goes through a proxy server which requires authentication to determine that it is in fact him surfing. He's a bit suspect they've got a key-logger installed, as well as remote-desktop utilities. Can anybody help me, what are his rights on the matter. He's not been informed he's being watched at all, but is just a bit curious. I remember seeing an article in a PCW or Computerworld a while back written by Melanie from IDG, but cant remember where it is for the life of me. Any thoughts/comments/ideas on the matter would be greatly appreciated. Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 287576 | 2004-11-03 19:27:00 | Have a look at the Privacy Commissioner's website and suggest to him he checks his employment contract and possibly talks to his union in a roud-a-bout way, if he has such a thing. The latter needs to be done discretely to avoid a ruckus. As far as I know, an employer is within it's rights to monitor usage and security but, I,m not up on the play as far as active monitoring. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 287577 | 2004-11-03 19:59:00 | > I just got a phone call from a friend of mine who's > just finished his night-shift at work. He was very > alarmed when sitting at his desk a 'net send' message > appeared saying "You look like you could use a coffee > - here's a cup holder". His CD-Rom drawer then > proceeded to open. That sounds like reasonably harmless fun to me. > He only uses the Internet during his Lunch break for > personal surfing, but doesnt like the idea that all > traffic goes through a proxy server which requires > authentication to determine that it is in fact him > surfing. I don't know what the legality is, but there is no reason his usage shouldn't be tracked and logged. For a start he's using work resources for personal use - if he was making toll calls on the work phone it'd be queried so why shouldn't this be. The company could/should be protecting themselves. If Internal Affairs comes knocking and says they've got a log of someone accessing child porn or something from the companies IP address they need to be able to see who was using the net at the time. |
whtafo (156) | ||
| 287578 | 2004-11-03 20:15:00 | I agree with the two follow up posters on your subject and their suggestion are good Chill and would also add ethics on the part of the IT dept. It sound like this IT guy was playing a prank to me and maybe showing off a bit | beama (111) | ||
| 287579 | 2004-11-03 20:20:00 | LOL. He's lucky he gets to surf the net. Not many workplaces are so kind. Esp govt. If you work for some govt depts, you'll be lucky if u get to surf the net, let alone send outside email. Unless u BEG. They're pretty restrictive. |
Spacemannz (808) | ||
| 287580 | 2004-11-03 20:25:00 | Can you blame them with Telecom's pricing? Besides,its our tax that pays for every single perk that anyone workin for the govenment gets. |
metla (154) | ||
| 287581 | 2004-11-03 20:28:00 | LOL. Well I used to work for them. And paid tax, so whats the diff between me / anyone working for the govt / and anyone else. NOTHING |
Spacemannz (808) | ||
| 287582 | 2004-11-03 20:33:00 | > Not many workplaces are so kind. Esp govt. If you > work for some govt depts, you'll be lucky if u get to > surf the net, let alone send outside email. Unless u > BEG. > > They're pretty restrictive. Hmmmm not in my experience, most of the people I know working for government departments devote most of their working day to personal e-mail. I've had to ask some of them to cease forwarding me crap while they are at work it got that bad. The CD-Rom thing definitely sounds like a prank, just like the HP glitch we found which lets you send malformed packets to the printer and change what the LCD display says. Printers that say "Insert Coin" are fun. |
whtafo (156) | ||
| 287583 | 2004-11-03 20:35:00 | heh? Govenments dept's get allocated money,they don't have to make it.It comes directly out of our pockets and should be treated as such. I can't see how that is affected by people who work there also paying tax? Other then that,Net access is like giving everyone in a factory a magazine to read and a cell phone incase they feel like a chat...... |
metla (154) | ||
| 287584 | 2004-11-03 20:36:00 | Thats why I said some NOT all. Try asking someone who works for Probation. You'll see what I mean. |
Spacemannz (808) | ||
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