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I friend of mine at Google UK was issued with a privacy screen for his standard issue laptop and told on day one that he MUST use it whenever in a public space.
by dazzawazza 16y ago
I friend of mine at Google UK was issued with a privacy screen for his standard issue laptop and told on day one that he MUST use it whenever in a public space.
It was quite good. Sitting next to him in the pub I could see about 5% of his screen.
- cdibona 16y agoYep, that's how it goes. How embarrassing.
- durin42 16y agoI actually don't know anyone that was issued a privacy screen and told they had to use it. Sounds like a good policy though. (Just offering my own data point here.)
- shawnee_ 16y agoI bet there is a decent-sized market with untapped demand for laptops / "tablets" (http://paulgraham.com/tablets.html http://paulgraham.com/tablets.html) with a built-in privacy screen mechanism. The hardware itself could be the screen, either by making the screen part of the case itself, or through the display which would enable people to read only from certain angles.
- kmfrk 16y agoThe "privacy screen" is a physical polarization filter - basically a fabric you put on your screen however you like. I don't know of any electrical/mechanical process that could shift the state of fabric to block light at most angles. If you buy a crappy laptop from a couple of years ago, you won't even have to buy a filter to render your screen unreadable from an angle that isn't perpendicular to the screen. :)
- jlees 16y agoEveryone at Google who uses their laptop in a public place (heck, even on the company shuttle) should be using a privacy screen. However, doesn't mean that everyone is. :)