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Germany To Grant Privacy At the Workplace
An anonymous reader writes "The German government is proposing a bill declaring that employees have an expectation of privacy at the workplace (translated article). Among other provisions, the bill would ban employers from surveilling their employees by cameras or logging and reading their emails. Also, potential employers would not be allowed to view an applicant's profile at Facebook or any other social network that hasn't actually been made for this purpose."
If anything this law will just remind employers that they can use facebook to read about applicants. As if you can stop anyone from looking at facebook.
What about where cameras are used to make sure employees are working? What about companies that have high rates of employee theft?
I'm going to go ahead and assume these laws were written by baby boomers. That generation is obsessed with "sticking it to the man" to the point of total idiocy.
You don't like that law ? You have several options.
Yes, you do. However, you are aware that it's been openly acknowledge that speed limits are kept below their efficient level due to local governments wanting ticket revenue and the federal government threatening to take away highway funding, right?
Anyways - I prefer the option of driving at the speed that SHOULD be the speed limit (so significantly faster than what's posted, but well within the safe speed range) and if I get pulled over, I accept that I broke the law and don't complain. I don't know about where you live, but the norm where I am is that the majority of people do around 15-20 mph over the speed limit and, as long as you slow down to acknowledge there's a cop there, the police don't care as long as you're driving safely and not swerving all over.
As for this law? Europe is full of laws like this that get passed due to the unions where the law exists to protect lazy workers from being fired. I'm surprised it took them this long to get a law like this on file.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ~Thomas Jefferson
When you go to your workplace, you are using the company's systems. The company has a right to monitor any and all activity on that system, since they own it. That is their right. Period. If you don't want to be monitored, don't use the company systems. Oh wait, can't do your job without the company's system? The door is over that way, don't let it hit you on the way out.
I can understand not being monitored on cameras and whatnot, but I can tell you right now, as a sysadmin, I monitor just about everything on my network and I'll be damned if anyone is ever going to stop me from that practice. The day I'm not allowed to monitor everything on the network is the day I quit my job of 20 years.
Can anyone tell me why 99% of
My english is better than most other people's german, so please point out mistakes politely. Thank you.
Perhaps you think your sig is either smart, funny, or both = except that it isn't. We don't give a shit about your knowledge of German, or my own knowledge of French, or his knowledge of Spanish, or her knowledge of Mandarin Chinese...
Catalin Braescu
Ofaly.com
Let me guess: you never had to manage human beings, right?
Catalin Braescu
Ofaly.com