The Monday 2004-02-16 at 17:23 +0100, Örn Hansen wrote:
Do you really think that, nationalities an ethics aside, employees writing here would be happy to post a way to allow their employers spying on them? That would be throwing stones to our own roof.
Well, putting it that way ... don't you think it's a rather "moot" to put it into the law, that the employee has to agree to it? would he, normally?
Depends on how hungry he is :-p As a matter of fact, that is the case. For example... here (Spain) phone banking operations are usually not only monitored, but recorded - and the operator has to tell the client that the conversation is being recorded, for both sides safety. On other client centers I'm told that supervisors often listen to ongoing conversations at random. And many other measures of the sort. On some countries (USA?) the login information tells straight away that your keyboard operations can be monitored; even people entering the site illegally must be told, because it seems that if this is not done, the information gathered against the intruder can not be used in court. On the other hand, I remember the case of an employee fired for "excessive internet use", or use of "corporate email for private means", or something similar, and the firing was turned around in court because the employer had violated employee privacy. I'm not sure if that was in Spain or outside. Both ways, you see.
I was just pointing out the fact, that I'm skeptic about our "noble" nature being the cause of our silence. That implies to me as well as anyone else.
Agreed. But I can't feel too happy about spying. Not as the would be administrator (ethic issue) nor as employee under observation (egotist issue). And both things are true. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson