Privacy.security

If an employer is paying for your equipment, you time, your services, and the place you are working they have some right to ensure you are not misusing said provisions. Beyond that, I'm not sure how far it goes.

This is happening in Canada mostly because they have a Privacy Commissioner, a bureaucrat who needs something to do. We don't have that here so don't expect any similar thought process to taek place until monitoring practices are challenged by the unions.

globetechnology.com - Shift to more workplace privacy protection.
In sorting through the legality of workplace surveillance, many assume that employers' ownership of the computing equipment and the right to set workplace rules grant them an unfettered right to monitor employees' computer usage provided that they disclose the practice. Typically framed as a matter of reasonable expectation of privacy, the belief is that if employees are told not to expect any privacy in the workplace, they don't have any.
A closer examination of Canadian law suggests the rules for workplace surveillance are gradually shifting, however -- moving away from an assessment of the reasonable expectation of privacy toward deciding whether the surveillance itself is reasonable.

[Privacy Digest]

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Diligence, Skepticism, Refusal to Buy

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I remember a speech someone gave at Stanford on the EULA for MS PassPort. They disected the the entire agreement and shwed how within it MS claimed ownership and use rights for everything that passed over the network and other insanely stupid clauses. It was hilarious -- except it was very real.
Of course, MS changed the agreement shortly thereafter to something less onerous.
Diligence, Skepticism, Refusal to Buy -- words to live by.

Slashdot | Microsoft Media Player "Security Patch" Changes EULA Big Time.
MobyTurbo writes "In an article on BSD Vault a careful reader posts that in the latest Windows Media Player security patch, the EULA (the "license agreement" you click on) says that you give MS the right to install digital rights management software, and the right to disable any other programs which may circumvent DRM on your computer." --- So if you want your machine secure, you also want microsoft to have free reign on your PC.
[Privacy Digest]

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