I call it the office bathroom camera problem & the creepy sysadmin problem. If employers were forced to be upfront about what they were doing, the equivalent of putting cameras inside each bathroom stall and having no real access control over what admins are doing with that data, people would be creeped out very quick.
They might move to employers who aren't that creepy.
I think it's a sexual harassment scandal waiting to happen, and hope things like the laws in Austria is what the rest of the world will adopt eventually:
You should read your employee handbook. It's not a ToS and it's not a legalese, they're generally pretty straightforward. Don't use your work machine for anything non work related. Pretend your screen can be seen by everyone at the company (because it probably can).
I will note that most regulations in the US (PCI, SOX, etc) require centralized log management. Unless you're at the smallest of small companies, your employer is doing this. It's a basic requirement.
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I call it the office bathroom camera problem & the creepy sysadmin problem. If employers were forced to be upfront about what they were doing, the equivalent of putting cameras inside each bathroom stall and having no real access control over what admins are doing with that data, people would be creeped out very quick.
They might move to employers who aren't that creepy.
I think it's a sexual harassment scandal waiting to happen, and hope things like the laws in Austria is what the rest of the world will adopt eventually:
https://www.taylorwessing.com/globaldatahub/article_austria_...
You should read your employee handbook. It's not a ToS and it's not a legalese, they're generally pretty straightforward. Don't use your work machine for anything non work related. Pretend your screen can be seen by everyone at the company (because it probably can).
I will note that most regulations in the US (PCI, SOX, etc) require centralized log management. Unless you're at the smallest of small companies, your employer is doing this. It's a basic requirement.