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Workplace Privacy - IBM Hot, Lilly Not
Brahmastra writes "Reuters has posted an article about the best and worst companies for workplace privacy, passing on information from the forthcoming issue of Wired Magazine, and IBM comes out on top. How does your workplace compare?" According to the summary, Eli Lilly was rated "the most notorious Big Brother boss", after "...its invasive background checks of workers after Sept. 11, 2001, some of which led to dismissals."
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Report: IBM Hot, Lilly Not for Workplace Privacy
Mon September 8, 2003 10:00 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp IBM.N . is least likely to snoop on its employees, while drug maker Eli Lilly and Co LLY.N . is the most notorious Big Brother boss, Wired magazine said in its October edition.
The technology magazine surveyed watchdog organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union and the Privacy Foundation to determine which large, publicly traded companies were the best and worst for workplace privacy.
IBM took top honors for its efforts to scrub Social Security numbers from health-care records, while Lilly received black marks for its invasive background checks of workers after Sept. 11, 2001, some of which led to dismissals.
Hewlett-Packard Co HPQ.N . and Baxter Healthcare BAX.N won plaudits for their vigilant protection of internal employee records, while Ford and Sears were praised for voluntarily signing on with stringent data-protection laws in Europe and California.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.WMT.N and Hilton Hotels Corp.HLT.N were criticized for secretly taping employees, while the New York Times Co. NYT.N . drew hisses for requiring doctors to disclose employee medical records. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.BNI.N also made the list of Big Brother bosses for its 2001 attempt to fight workers' compensation claims with genital testing.
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I just read this on Yahoo! News for crying out loud. News for Nerds, Stuff that you can read anywhere.
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That's why they're gonnna fail. juslt like they did with os/2[.]
Just like how you failed spelling class?
I call bullshit.
1) Keyloggers crashing constantly? They're pretty simple things.. I think you've taken the instability of ACertainOS(TM) and extrapolated it to simple keyloggers in an attempt to build this silly story.
2) How, exactly, does the keylogger crashing divulge the location of the logfile? It could, sure, but I think this was too convenient.
3) ASCI art, eh? If it'd been ASCII art, I might have believed that you'd be intelligent enough to notice the "crashing" of the keylogger and find the logfile.
I think it is reasonable for the work place to relize you have a life outside of work, and sometimes the to cross.
That's a huge gay area. I mean, grey area. You see, the problem is that some people use their out-of-work activities to bomb federal buildings, hijack airplanes, and so forth. Others just do unimportant things like smoke CRACK. Heh. Some of us do harmless things, but look like we're criminals (i'm a family man, really!).
Anyway, if IBM failed to identify one of their workers as being a terrorist, and then that worker blew up the building he worked in, IBM would be out a big chunk of change. They'd have a lot of dead employees on their hands, and a BIG PR disaster. But the trick is: How do you identify someone's a *insert unacceptable social behavior here*? More importantly, if someone is gay does it really impact the company all that much?
Sorry about the gay comments, I've been watching a bit of Python lately....
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Wow. Either you are an idiot or you were working for one. My manager goes to great lengths to work with me and make sure I understand and am happy with where I am and where I am headed in IBM.
> same valid points without implicating a "right-wing agenda"
Let me guess, you voted for Bush.
Everything he wrote is more or less true, the war on drugs cost us civil liberties, "tough on crime" conservtive lawmakers cost us civil liberties, and now we've reached a breaking point where the individual is not only ignorant of his or her rights but is afraid to assert them because of how everyone one else acts and how the media portrays people e.g. only criminals ask for warrants, nice people let the police right on in.
And Windows and Linux are never offtopic in the Slashdot World. So I'm reading the article, and on the sidebar I see: Study: Windows Can Be Cheaper to Use Than Linux. And I'm thinking, how come the story on IBM and privacy made it to Slashdot but not this wonderful story on Microsoft and Linux so we can all have a grand fight and yelling match. I mean really, standards around here are slipping.