Re: Packet sniffing problems

chris_at_nospam.com
Date: 03/31/04 

Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 06:47:50 GMT

On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 23:18:11 +0300, Thor Kottelin <thor@anta.net>
wrote:

>
>
>chris@nospam.com wrote:
>
>> The company has every right to monitor the
>> use of their computers.
>
>Not in my jurisdiction (Finland). "Employer actions may not jeopardize the
>secrecy of the employee's private, confidential messages when using
>electronic mail or data networks." - Act on the Protection of Privacy in
>Working Life, <URL:http://www.finlex.fi/pdf/saadkaan/E0010477.PDF>
>
>If, in your country, employers are free to spy on their employees, please
>accept my condoleances.
>
>Thor

Oops. Being the typical American, I was thinking US laws. A list of
sites visited probably doesn't risk violating an employees privacy
(unless they keep visiting www.cureherpes.com). In any case, an
established policy of no personal business would cover you and the
monitoring software would simply highlight the abusers of that policy.

-Chris

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