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> Installing an extension to monitor employee use of a company computer is legal and generally accepted behavior. Legal and generally accepted in US jurisdicti
by usr1106 7y ago
> Installing an extension to monitor employee use of a company computer is legal and generally accepted behavior.
Legal and generally accepted in US jurisdiction. In Germany that would require approval by employee representatives, unlikely to happen in any bigger company. In Finland a somewhat related and highly controversive law was introduced many years ago that it would be legal if registered with data protection authorities. Something like 3 companies registered in a decade. Maybe some did it without registering, but generally this is not deemed clearly acceptable practice.
- DeckOfSardines 7y agoCan you expand on this point? I wasn't sure if your point was that this might hinder Google expanding in other countries or if you were just taking issue with the phrasing.
- usr1106 7y agoMy point was just to show that legal systems differ and the balance between employer and employee rights can vary. Google has a big data center in Finland. IIRC they stopped their plans for a Berlin lab after visible anti-Google protests in the neighborhood, but I'm sure they have employees somewhere in Germany. International companies just follow local legislation and practices and there is no problem (most of the time at least, there are examples of failure like Walmart trying to expand to Germany with too much of an American management style and eventually giving up).
- jeltz 7y agoGoogle already have expanded to plenty of countries, and presumably in some of them this kind of monitoring would be illegal.