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“Monitoring” covers many things, some more concerning than others. Activating the camera or mic without consent? Yeah, that’s bad. What about recording which
by jl6 5y ago
“Monitoring” covers many things, some more concerning than others.
Activating the camera or mic without consent? Yeah, that’s bad.
What about recording which websites are visited on a work device? Not so unreasonable.
Taking screenshots of desktops at random intervals? Could be a huge liability if you capture some confidential information and the screenshots go into an unmanaged data dump.
- theshrike79 5y ago> Taking screenshots of desktops at random intervals? Could be a huge liability if you capture some confidential information and the screenshots go into an unmanaged data dump. I'd just have a fully naked picture of myself in the corner of my screen at all times :D
- corobo 5y ago> Activating the camera or mic without consent? Creepy > What about recording which websites are visited on a work device? Creepy > Taking screenshots of desktops at random intervals? Creepy Don't hire people if you don't trust people. Monitor their output not their process
- TecoAndJix 5y agoLogging DNS traffic is valuable during a security investigation. Depending on your company’s acceptable use policy, no one cares that you are on Reddit. Monitoring Remote Desktop sessions either by random interval screenshots or screen recording is valuable when you have vendors/contractors connecting to your net. IMO, this is unacceptable for normal employee workstations. Turning on the mic or webcam is a major violation of privacy. If your doing something SO important/secret/critical that you need to monitor the person doing it you should not be working remotely to begin with.
- corobo 5y agoI'm not using employer provided DNS servers either haha
- technion 5y agoI agree in principle but there's context to this discussion. I've had people argue (to be clear, on work provided computers) that having EDR software phone home with "User downloaded free-movies-mp4.exe and it contained ransomware" is a massive privacy violation. There's got to be an acceptable limit.
- throwaway75787 5y agoMonitoring the camera and monitoring the mic without consent are different areas legally. Photo/video recording is permitted in many circumstances. Recording from the microphone falls under old Federal wiretapping laws. It's why you never see professional security cameras with microphones on them.