James wrote:
> Just as a company is free to
> ban personal 'phone calls, or charge for them, but not to record them, the
> company can prohibit WWW surfing, or charge users for the bandwidth they
> use - but logging what users do is a violation of their privacy. Usage
> logs must not be made available to ANYONE without a court order (that
> bit's a legal requirement, BTW).
Actually, the courts have disagreed with you. Companies, at least in the US,
can log usage legally. Indeed, both my current and previous employers do.
Our web filter server also sends you a nastygram if you go to an
inappropriate site, and copies quite a bit of management. Hence people tend
to avoid such sites like the plague where I work. It's not worth the hassle.
The only caveat is I believe they have to tell the employees that they *are*
logging all of it. Both places I've worked over the past several years make
that *very* clear during initial orientation. You know about it from the day
you are hired.
All the best,
Caity
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