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shams42 writes: "Although the internet has been far from private for some time now, it seems that public awareness and concern over this issue is mounting. This article at CNN discusses the issue of companies monitoring instant messages for cyberslacking or leaking company secrets. There is also the possibility of them being included as evidence in court cases."

Comments

Re:Alternate

[56ker]

Sure Google won't be after your pigeons? ;o)

Re:I still don't get this....

[q-soe]

many of us work in environments where our calls are taped and monitored.

And as a manager let me tell you what that 'trust' gets you - gigabytes of porn, movies, racism, games, and the other shit - none of which have any place at work.

While people abuse trust companies will not trust people. we used to have unmonitored email and web, we now monitor everything after the mp3 dowloading and porn your friends by email gave is 2 sexual harrasment cases and a massive (300%) jump in web traffic.

people need to demonstrate they are worthy of trust - it's not an implicit right in the workforce