With corporations having the ability to silently see and record everything that happens on your computer in the name of security, there are some very real privacy and legal issues to requiring personal computers/devices for business. Our personal computers have become the place we keep personal income tax, banking, recreational activities, political and philosophical opinions with friends and family, personal health research about our current ailments, and on and on. If a corporation believes an employee or contractor is stealing, you better believe your home PC will fall under the corporate "Acceptable Use Agreement" which gives the corporation the right to snoop anything that attaches to its network. Most state laws give employers the right to do this with the caveat that they may not "intentionally look" at anything that is personal. But with business and personal all mixed together on a PC, how is it possible for employers to not see large amounts of personal info? Are we all to trust this will not be quietly abused by some employers to discriminate against employees? If you trust that employers will do the right thing, do you also trust that employers will appropriately destroy the data when they are done with it, or store all of those intimate details about you securely (in some nameless service cloud) so that it can't be mined by someone with bad intent? Also, personal equipment can become part of e-discovery in a corporate court case they may have nothing to do with whether you did something wrong. Employees could find themselves giving up an image of their personal PC to law enforcement for court cases their employers are involved in.
With corporations having the ability to silently see and record everything that happens on your computer in the name of security, there are some very real privacy and legal issues to requiring personal computers/devices for business, even if you're accessing remote desktop VMs.
Our personal computers have become the place we keep personal income tax, banking, recreational activities, political and philosophical opinions with friends and family, personal health research about our current ailments, and on and on. If a corporation believes an employee or contractor is stealing, you better believe your home PC will fall under the corporate "Acceptable Use Agreement" which gives the corporation the right to snoop anything that attaches to it's network. Most state laws give employers the right to do this with the caveat that they may not "intentionally look" at anything that is personal. But with business and personal all mixed together on a PC, how is it possible for employers to not see large amounts of personal info? Are we all to trust this will not be quietly abused by some employers to discriminate against employees? If you trust that employers will do the right thing, do you also trust that employers will appropriately destroy the data when they are done with it, or store all of those intimate details about you securely (in some nameless service cloud) so that it can't be mined by someone with bad intent?
Also, personal equipment can become part of e-discovery in a corporate court case they may have nothing to do with whether you did something wrong. Employees could find themselves giving up an image of their personal PC to law enforcement for court cases their employers are involved in.
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With corporations having the ability to silently see and record everything that happens on your computer in the name of security, there are some very real privacy and legal issues to requiring personal computers/devices for business. Our personal computers have become the place we keep personal income tax, banking, recreational activities, political and philosophical opinions with friends and family, personal health research about our current ailments, and on and on. If a corporation believes an employee or contractor is stealing, you better believe your home PC will fall under the corporate "Acceptable Use Agreement" which gives the corporation the right to snoop anything that attaches to its network. Most state laws give employers the right to do this with the caveat that they may not "intentionally look" at anything that is personal. But with business and personal all mixed together on a PC, how is it possible for employers to not see large amounts of personal info? Are we all to trust this will not be quietly abused by some employers to discriminate against employees? If you trust that employers will do the right thing, do you also trust that employers will appropriately destroy the data when they are done with it, or store all of those intimate details about you securely (in some nameless service cloud) so that it can't be mined by someone with bad intent? Also, personal equipment can become part of e-discovery in a corporate court case they may have nothing to do with whether you did something wrong. Employees could find themselves giving up an image of their personal PC to law enforcement for court cases their employers are involved in.
With corporations having the ability to silently see and record everything that happens on your computer in the name of security, there are some very real privacy and legal issues to requiring personal computers/devices for business, even if you're accessing remote desktop VMs. Our personal computers have become the place we keep personal income tax, banking, recreational activities, political and philosophical opinions with friends and family, personal health research about our current ailments, and on and on. If a corporation believes an employee or contractor is stealing, you better believe your home PC will fall under the corporate "Acceptable Use Agreement" which gives the corporation the right to snoop anything that attaches to it's network. Most state laws give employers the right to do this with the caveat that they may not "intentionally look" at anything that is personal. But with business and personal all mixed together on a PC, how is it possible for employers to not see large amounts of personal info? Are we all to trust this will not be quietly abused by some employers to discriminate against employees? If you trust that employers will do the right thing, do you also trust that employers will appropriately destroy the data when they are done with it, or store all of those intimate details about you securely (in some nameless service cloud) so that it can't be mined by someone with bad intent? Also, personal equipment can become part of e-discovery in a corporate court case they may have nothing to do with whether you did something wrong. Employees could find themselves giving up an image of their personal PC to law enforcement for court cases their employers are involved in.