Re: The little sex kitten
At 11:57 AM 7/29/95, Philip Zimmermann wrote:
JUDGE RULES ON E-MAIL PRIVACY CASE
TULSA, OKLA -- The Oklahoma Supreme Court has ruled on a case that many legal experts believe clearly delineates the e-mail privacy rights of computer users in the workplace. Judge Stan Musing declared that employees have a right to expect that their empolyers will refrain from monitoring e-mail messages transmitted on company systems.
Far as I can tell, this is meaningless. If you sign a paper "consenting" to email monitoring by your employer, they've got a green light, period. And under those circumstances, I'd think very few companies would be foolish enough not to just ask you to sign. So the only ones who have to worry are those who don't get your "permission" first, and probably more and more companies will just be more up front about it in the future. The tightwad, privacy-loathing scumbags I work for sprang just such a document on us recently, and after squirming and bitching about it for a while, I actually did sign, simply because I wasn't prepared to lose my job at that point. My fear, based on well-established tradition, is that eventually this will become widespread and more and more employers will monitor email, with coerced "consent." --Dave. -- Dave Mandl dmandl@panix.com http://wfmu.org/~davem
The tightwad, privacy-loathing scumbags I work for sprang just such a document on us recently, and after squirming and bitching about it for a while, I actually did sign, simply because I wasn't prepared to lose my job at that point. My fear, based on well-established tradition, is that eventually this will become widespread and more and more employers will monitor email, with coerced "consent."
I really don't see what the big deal is. That's why you use a commercial/non-work ISP for personal email, etc. -- sameer Voice: 510-601-9777 Network Administrator Pager: 510-321-1014 Community ConneXion: The NEXUS-Berkeley Dialin: 510-658-6376 http://www.c2.org (or login as "guest") sameer@c2.org
On Sat, 29 Jul 1995, David Mandl wrote:
The tightwad, privacy-loathing scumbags I work for sprang just such a document on us recently, and after squirming and bitching about it for a while, I actually did sign, simply because I wasn't prepared to lose my job at that point. My fear, based on well-established tradition, is that eventually this will become widespread and more and more employers will monitor email, with coerced "consent."
That's OK - just use PGP :) -- Ed Carp, N7EKG Ed.Carp@linux.org, ecarp@netcom.com 801/534-8857 voicemail 801/460-1883 digital pager Finger ecarp@netcom.com for PGP 2.5 public key an88744@anon.penet.fi Q. What's the trouble with writing an MS-DOS program to emulate Clinton? A. Figuring out what to do with the other 639K of memory.
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