Comment by xvector
1 year ago
Your work does this. This is incredibly common on basically every corporate device issued today.
The real issue is the NUX, which doesn't look like it made the data collection clear to users.
1 year ago
Your work does this. This is incredibly common on basically every corporate device issued today.
The real issue is the NUX, which doesn't look like it made the data collection clear to users.
My work puts a big banner on the login screen that says up front that they can and will record and monitor everything on this machine. And IMO that's fine, because it's their machine. If they wanted to do that to my machine it would be a problem.
No place I’ve worked has ever told their employees that they do this, but most of them do. Some employees I’ve spoken to are quite surprised that their “encrypted” connections are being monitored.
People should probably read their employment agreements and IT usage policy. I'd be surprised if it's not written somewhere.
Besides which, using someone else's computer with an expectation of privacy is the wrong expectation.
I agree it's legally fine, but morally/socially there are ways to go-too-far.
there's nothing wrong with corporations tracking use of their hardware.
they have to watch for data exfiltration and attempts to download malware, etc.
don't use a corporate device for anything you don't want work to see.
use your own. that's not a hard ask.
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It's "fine" in the way that I would leave that company at the first opportunity.
I signed a contract with my employer that when I'm using the computer they give me to conduct their business on their behalf, they have the right to observe my usage of that computer.
The situation in this article is completely different.
None of my employers have done this to my knowledge. Some of them have had the ability to run commands on my computer, so they could in theory install such a thing without me noticing, but the default OOTB experience was not that.