network monitoring

[Dan McCullough]

One other thing, in the states if you as a company are actively
monitoring/tracking email, im and internet usage and an employee does
something illegal, you the company could be held liable as well so I
would also make sure that you know all the laws concerning monitoring.

On 6/5/07, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb at tiscali.fr> wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 June 2007 19:57, Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote:
> > El Martes, 5 de Junio de 2007 19:45, Frank Cox escribió:
> > > On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:25:58 +0200
> > >
> > > I assume this is to prevent anyone from saying, "But I told you on MSN
> > > that I wanted you to sell that stock yesterday" after the bottom falls
> > > out.
> >
> > If that's true, why not only keeping a log of the company instant messaging
> > system? (If available)
> >
> > The point was, I'd like to know if he's going to inform his users about all
> > this stuff
> > --
> > Manuel Arostegui Ramirez.
>
> I may be wrong. but seem to remember that Yogesh asked about setting up an
> Internet café a while back. If that's so, perhaps he just wants to make sure
> his clients arn't accessing dodgy sites, etc.
>
> I have no idea as to how responsible an owner of an Internet café would be if
> some of his clients were accessing seriously dodgy porn sites. And I mean the
> worst kind, or were older people carrying on dirty talk with young people by
> means of IM.
>
> Under such circumstances I can well understand the need to know what your
> clients are doing on machines that on the bottom line, you are responsible
> for.
>
> As you say Manuel his clients/employees would need to be very well aware that
> their Internet activity was being monitored, and that they the
> client/employee would ultimately be responsible for what they did on the
> Internet.
>
> Not so easy to track down someone who wanders into an Internet café off the
> street though. They come in, in anonimity, do what they want on your machine,
> and go out in anonimity.
>
> I only mention this, as I'd thought about setting up an Internet café, but now
> think that it's not worth the hassle if you are responsible for what your
> clients do on your machines while online.
>
> Nigel.
>
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