[Lonesome in Massachussets]

When I logon to my computer at work, I have to acknowledge that the company reserves the right to monitor everything I do on it and that there is no expectation of privacy on company computers.

My choice: their way or the highway. I can see the same thing with any government agency’s computers. If you want to write your congressman, do it on your own computer, on your own time.

[Wurlitzer]

“If you want to write your congressman, do it on your own computer, on your own time.”

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Even that will not prevent someone from being fired. I know first hand a person who was fired because they used their own PC/E-Mail account to handle customer communication in the evening or when the totally inept IT department could not keep the servers up.

The IT dept. falling back on recent (at that time) federal legislation demanded that any communication only go through the company servers. Great until a customer is down and they need some replacement equipment immediately and the only method is an employee’s own PC and e-mail account.

Like many IT departments this one felt the company and the employees existed to serve IT and not the other way around.

[VF-51vnv]

you are correct about the Gov...I worked for DOE for 12 years. Every day we were monitored for all phone calls, e-mails coming and going, sites we logged onto and length of time spent on those sites. ANY anomalies for ANY supposed infractions were sent to your Supervisor and Division Director without employee knowledge. So-called major infractions were documented, employee counseled and employment record annotated as such. NSFW, if even accidental was termination. By the way biometric log-in....no excuses

[VF-51vnv]

you are correct about the Gov...I worked for DOE for 12 years. Every day we were monitored for all phone calls, e-mails coming and going, sites we logged onto and length of time spent on those sites. ANY anomalies for ANY supposed infractions were sent to your Supervisor and Division Director without employee knowledge. So-called major infractions were documented, employee counseled and employment record annotated as such. NSFW, if even accidental was termination. By the way biometric log-in....no excuses