NODE 1e7486a3Regarding employee rights on company equipment
lunaslide@loop.comSat, 10 Feb 1996 03:11:55 +0800
A day or so ago, I reasoned incorrectly that university students and
employees were free to encrypt mail they sent through their student or work
accounts. This was in response to a statement that the govt could retain
at least some control of internet traffic through the universities and
businesses. I would credit the person who called me on it, by I do not
remember who it was. It seems that, at least for employees, it is totally
up to the employer:
>From Edupage Feb 8, 1996,
INTERNET USAGE POLICIES
Neal J. Friedman, a specialist in online computer law, says that "employees
are under the misapprehension that the First Amendment applies in the
workplace -- it doesn't. Employees need to know they have no right of
privacy and no right of free speech using company resources." According to
Computerworld, a number of employers are adopting Internet usage polcies,
such as one developed at Florida Atlantic University: <
http://www.fau.edu/rinaldi/net/netpol.txt > (Computerworld 5 Feb 96 p55)
It's still to bad that I was wrong :-(, but such is life.
lunaslide
On the meridian of time there is no injustice, only the poetry of motion
creating the illusion of truth and drama.
Henry Miller
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NODE 5e64a800Re: Regarding employee rights on company equipment
Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>Sat, 10 Feb 1996 05:08:29 +0800
On Fri, 9 Feb 1996 lunaslide@loop.com wrote:
[There are none]
> It's still to bad that I was wrong :-(, but such is life.
I don't see why that's such a big deal, now. How much does a netcom or
c2.org account cost anyway?
If you want to claim the right to use other people's equipment for
personal purposes, then you're accepting that they will do the same
thing. I don't think you want your CEO to have an endless array of
perks, or your political representatives to abuse government resources
for personal and political use (which is not to say that they don't,
just that they shouldn't, and you shouldn't legitimize it).
-rich