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US Firms Read Employee E-mail On a Massive Scale
An anonymous reader writes "In its fifth annual study of outbound e-mail and data loss prevention issues, Proofpoint found that 41% of the largest companies surveyed (those with 20,000 or more employees) reported that they employ staff to read or otherwise analyze the contents of outbound e-mail. 22% of these companies said they employ staff primarily or exclusively for this purpose."
I wrote the code that went through the emails from a small company where I was employed. While I was writing and testing the system, I ended up reading a lot of email.
I was shocked at what I saw. People shopping around their resume, looking for new jobs. People emailing people who they were involved with in an extra-marital affair. And lots of the other junk you mention. And this was primarily involving execs.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
That's why God intelligently designed the French Foreign Legion. Do your time under assumed name, and gain French citizenship under that name -- or go back to your home country with your real identity intact if things don't work out (well, work out well enough that you don't get splattered across Algeria).
One of their duties is guarding the ESA launch site in French Guiana, so some Slashdotters might be into that. Plus, working out and is a lot like "leveling up," as our friends at XKCD remind us. Just think of it as a real-life RPG.
Yup. I stopped "special" surfing at the office when I put a linux box on a hub between the network internet router and the switches. I simply sniffed all traffic for image files and displayed it on a 42" LCD out in the sales area.
Images were displayed of what people were surfing. I also attached the ip address of the user to the image.
It stopped inappropriate internet surfing in that office in 3 days.
When everyone can wee what you are doing, you get back to real work.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
This is the perfect argument to get a web based cellphone. It completely puts the company out of the loop and you can send/receive whatever info you want.