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Keylogging is illegal almost everywhere. If you suspect that your current or former employer is monitoring people's keystrokes, please contact the appropriate
by peteforde 7y ago
Keylogging is illegal almost everywhere.
If you suspect that your current or former employer is monitoring people's keystrokes, please contact the appropriate authorities to start a whistleblower process.
- WrtCdEvrydy 7y agoKeylogging of any company provided hardware is probably legal as you have no expectation of privacy.
- adrianN 7y agoMaybe in your jurisdiction, but certainly not here in Germany.
- peteforde 7y agoSays who? I believe that you are mistaken. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-line-of-legality-of-hardware-keyloggers https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-line-of-legality-of-hardwa... https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/08/03/fired-employee-caught-by-keylogger-wins-case/ https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/08/03/fired-employee-c... https://www.grossmcginley.com/privacy-rights-in-the-workplace/ https://www.grossmcginley.com/privacy-rights-in-the-workplac...
- Silhouette 7y agoFortunately, much of the world is more enlightened than this, and its legal systems do favour the privacy of employees over the voyeuristic ambitions of bad management under normal circumstances. In many places, the idea that you have no entitlement to personal privacy just because you are working for someone else would be widely derided. There are often special cases in the laws for when covert monitoring is genuinely justified, for example when there is a reasonable suspicion of wrong-doing by an employee or there are serious security concerns that legitimately require stronger measures. But intrusive surveillance by default, even of employees using company resources on company time, is not permitted in these jurisdictions.
- peteforde 7y agoBeautifully said. I would only add that in the extraordinary case of a legal investigation, there's still no room for vigilante spying by the employer themselves. Presumably, law enforcement would take necessary steps to intervene, not the employer.
- HenryBemis 7y agoLadies and Gentlemen no fighting!! Why bother logging keystrokes and clicks, when there is BlueCoat that in real time decrypts, reads, logs/reports, encrypts EVERYTHING that comes in and out of your PC?
- UweSchmidt 7y agoI do expect privacy, and find the idea of a middle manager or hr person digging through a employee keylogger output file revolting. It's a truly degenerate state of employer-employee relationship if this is even conceivable.