network monitoring
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Wed Jun 6 16:09:09 UTC 2007
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
>> On Wednesday 06 June 2007 12:16:34 Andy Green wrote:
>>> Yep no doubt. But what does it mean? It's now a reasonable duty
>>> expected of the company to read all the employee traffic and you are
>>> negligent if you're not doing it? Don't worry it's just a rhetorical
>>> question.
>>>
>> No, there's no obligation to do that - it's just that if you don't you
>> can be imprisoned for the behaviour of your employee. I doubt if any
>> company routinely monitor like that, but if it was suspected that
>> someone was using company time and bandwidth for an illegal purpose,
>> it would certainly be sensible to monitor that person's activities for
>> a time. It's not something I ever needed to do, but I can see that it
>> could happen.
>
> I don't think there is anything new or special about email here. A
> company can't knowingly allow any of their equipment to be used for
> illegal purposes. What would you do if you thought an employee was
> making bomb threats from a company phone?
>
NBIALH.... (No Body Is A Lawyer Here) .... But sure, a company can
knowingly allow their equipment to be used for illegal purposes. Sure, I
can tell you how to snoop on your users. Will your actions be legal? Will
my telling how to do it be legal? Damed if I know....so I remain silent on
the issue.
You go figure it out and be responsible for your actions in the jurisdiction
within you live.
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