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What you do at your workplace is by definition not private and shouldn't be. When you're on the company clock using the companies resources, the company should

• tremon 11y ago
  Actually, what you do on company time is private. Or are you arguing that all meeting minutes should always be publicly accessible? Also, you may have misunderstood the meaning of privacy. If I tell I'm terminally ill, it is no longer a private matter, since you know it too. Does that mean you telling the whole world is the right thing to do? What you appear to be arguing is that your employer may choose to make public anything about you that happened on company time. That is a huge power imbalance, as you certainly don't have the same privilege about your employer, as you depend on them for your livelihood. We have laws to remedy that power imbalance, that is why you have a reasonable expectation of privacy even in the workplace. It has nothing to do with "private" in itself. It is just one of the tools civilization has developed to prevent exploitation.