5 ms·
> it's absurd to think you have, or even deserve, to use someone else's property for whatever you want How you read this into my comment is beyond me. An emplo
by foepys 5y ago
> it's absurd to think you have, or even deserve, to use someone else's property for whatever you want
How you read this into my comment is beyond me. An employee cannot use the company-provided resources in whatever way they like. If they do, that's grounds for termination.
German labor laws recognize that total surveillance is not aligning with the values of a free society. Life does not stop at work, every company event should tell you that. Instead there needs to be indications that the employee is acting in bad faith, then the employer can "surveil" the employee in a limited fashion, like read work emails (not private emails) or search their desk. The same as police cannot search you whenever they like without reason.
- andylynch 5y agoIt’s worth remembering that many Germans still have direct experience of living in the surveillance state of East Germany, and I would expect know better than most how these tools can be used
- hyperman1 5y agoThis is not only a fact in Germany. Belgium has comparable protections. I'd assume the EU has them.
- southerntofu 5y agoI think the parent poster meant that the memory of a surveillance State is alive and well in East Germany because it was only two generations ago. In other countries like France and Belgium, the surveillance State has been aimed at specific communities and at remote colonies lately, but a generalized state of surveillance has not been seen since the 1940s so people tend to underestimate the dangers of that based on little living memory of how authoritarianism grows.