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> That's been standard in every single school and workplace for decades. Monitoring work or school internet use without specific prior suspicion is illegal in
by blattimwind 7y ago
> That's been standard in every single school and workplace for decades.
Monitoring work or school internet use without specific prior suspicion is illegal in the entire EU; so this level of surveillance may be "standard" in some countries, but hardly globally.
> In China,
Not exactly the reference I was looking for, though from this perspective any level of surveillance is normal.
- chrisseaton 7y agoPlenty of places in the EU routinely monitor customers and block certain websites. Rail companies blocking streaming sites for just one very reasonable example. It can’t be as simply illegal as you say it is.
- bobwaycott 7y agoMonitoring and blocking are entirely different.
- chrisseaton 7y agoHow can you block without first monitoring what sites people are trying to access?
- ohazi 7y agoThere's usually a legal distinction. Blocking does require looking at the request, but the accept/request decision is made instantaneously and is usually based on a static blacklist (or whitelist). It doesn't necessarily require logging. Monitoring usually means logging all activity and then automatically or manually sifting through the logs to look for things, possibly much later, and possibly in response to other subsequent events. Monitoring is considered by most people to be worse, and may come with more legal liabilities.