[techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

[Penguina]

Penguina wrote:
> > I don't think that the person who pays the rent on the office space,
> > financed the PCs and pays for the bandwidth every month would feel
> > the same way.

James Sutherland wrote:
> We aren't talking about the EMPLOYER here, but about other people. Of
> course the employer can set certain limits on usage, subject to respecting
> those users' privacy - the point is that others who happen to be in the
> area do NOT have any control over each other. Just as a company is free to
> ban personal 'phone calls, or charge for them, but not to record them, the
> company can prohibit WWW surfing, or charge users for the bandwidth they
> use - but logging what users do is a violation of their privacy. Usage
> logs must not be made available to ANYONE without a court order (that
> bit's a legal requirement, BTW).
> James.

You're dead wrong.  Read http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs7-work.htm

Cheryl