[afraidfortherepublic]

Filing at tech_index

[LurkedLongEnough]

BUMP

[Cable225]

"Some of the practices are far too invasive," said Sarah Andrews, research director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. "There should be limits on what they can or can't collect."

I work as an information security officer in our IT department, and occasionally I have to check up on what people are doing at their workstations.

The over-riding principle here is a) the company owns the PC, b) the company owns the internet connection, and c) the company owns the mail servers.

They have every right in the world to monitor how that equipment is being used. Period.