Bossware is a big legal risk
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Bossware is a big legal risk
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Re: Bossware is a big legal risk
#2So how do I know if my work computer features such surveillance?
Re: Bossware is a big legal risk
#3So how do I know if my work computer features such surveillance?
That's the neat thing -- you don't.
Re: Bossware is a big legal risk
#4So how do I know if my work computer features such surveillance?
Just assume it does
Re: Bossware is a big legal risk
#5So how do I know if my work computer features such surveillance?
Either root the device or mitm yourself, not much outside of that that you can do to ensure nothing fishy is going on.
Re: Bossware is a big legal risk
#6So how do I know if my work computer features such surveillance?
You have to assume that it does.
Re: Bossware is a big legal risk
#7I was surprised (perhaps I shouldn't have been) to encounter bossware-like surveilance in an interview process.
About 6 months ago I was interviewing with InterSystems, a company that does healthcare software. Only when I signed in for the online coding interview did I learn that they required I have a webcam on myself the whole time.
I don't like using coarse language. But it was the first time I struggled to not use the phrase "fuck you" in my email to the recruiter.
Re: Bossware is a big legal risk
#8So how do I know if my work computer features such surveillance?
That's a big reason that I purchased my own, personal computer, many years ago. I was paid well enough, that it was quite possible.
Back then, they hadn't really gotten going with all the monitoring stuff, but I did it from a sense of personal integrity.
I was writing open-source stuff, and there was no way that I was going to allow my company to try to claim it. I didn't use company time, and I didn't use company equipment.
I did not have a "shower clause" in my employment contract, so I was free to work on my own stuff, on my own time.
Re: Bossware is a big legal risk
#9The reasons given are pretty much a nothingburger and standard compliance items you should be doing anyway!
I am trying to figure out what exactly is the problem people have though: you're literally on a company asset, being paid by the company, you've signed copyright away, you're aware their is no expectation of privacy. Use your cell phone or your home computer for home business, work during company hours, doesn't seem like that big of a deal.
=== EDIT: Re: Comments about about webcams, and nowhere in my comments did I say anything about cameras. Read both the article and my comments before attacking straw men.
Re: Bossware is a big legal risk
#10The reasons given are pretty much a nothingburger and standard compliance items you should be doing anyway! I am trying to figure out what exactly is the problem people have though: you're literally on a company asset, being paid by the company, you've signed copyright away, you're aware their is no expectation of privacy. Use your cell phone or your home computer for home business, work during company hours, doesn't…
Because workers arent slaves or robots, and being on the job doesnt make them such. Your mentality is actually staggering to me.