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Your employer is very possibly doing it to you and other employees as well, and it's perfectly legal for them to do it. I keep any work-issued equipment I have

• sam_lowry_ 6y ago
  In many places in the world, they can't. In Europe, the matter of employers monitoring employees is highly regulated.
• foolinaround 6y ago
  never thought of this level of paranoia! you think they would record audio/video, or just log the keystrokes?
  • SirSourdough 6y ago
    I’m aware of at least one case of a school installing software that allowed them to remotely access the webcams of students, and they admitted to using the software on 40+ occasions. I wouldn’t be surprised if this practice existed in the corporate world as well.
    • razakel 6y ago
      There was the Robbins v. Lower Merion School District case, where a student sued after being disciplined for "taking drugs" in his bedroom (it was actually candy). They'd remotely activated the webcam on his school-issued laptop. And, frankly, spying on a teenage boy in his bedroom, they're lucky they didn't face felony charges.
  • heavyset_go 6y ago
    I know of a fairly large employer in the pharmaceutical space that installs spyware on company computers that employees take home, and uses that spyware to keep tabs on what websites were visited on the machines. They made decisions to fire certain employees based on it, too.
  • netsharc 6y ago
    Earlier today: "I saw you spun up an Ubuntu instance on Azure...". (I'm not super paranoid but I find the timing funny).