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Date: 1998-11-19
Paranoia am IT-Arbeitsplatz: Tatstatureingaben registriert-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- updating 98.11.18/3 Paranoia am IT-Arbeitsplatz: Tatstatureingaben registriert Laut geltendem US-Recht werfen Angestellte "mit Betreten des Arbeitsplatzes automatisch ihre Persönlichkeitsrechte in den Papierkorb und fischen sie erst nach Dienstschluss wieder heraus" sagt ein Sprecher der American Civil Liberties Union in dieser auszugsweise wiedergegebenen, sehr langen Story der Village Voice. Der letzte Schrei im Überwachen der Angestellten ist sogenanntes "keystroke-monitoring", das jede Tastatureingabe registriert. -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Matt Goldberg ... "One day my manager came into my cube and asked me to open my e-mail outbox," Goralnik recalls. "Then she made me open up each e-mail in succession and proceeded to read them, one by one, standing right behind me at my desk." ... According to Jeremy Gruber, legal director of the ACLU's Task Force on Civil Liberties in the Workplace, situations like Goralnik's are becoming increasingly common; electronic monitoring in the workplace is the number one complaint received by the ACLU. All across the country, companies are monitoring (if not also restricting) the Internet use of millions of employees, in many cases without the employees even knowing about it. "There's almost no limit to what an employer can do in terms of watching their employees' activities," Gruber says. "And it's all legal." ... This software with names like Net Access Manager, Cyber Patrol Corporate, and Desktop Surveillance allows employers to see who their workers correspond with via e- mail (and what is communicated), what sites they view (or try to) and what files they download (and from where), not to mention how long they spend online. In some cases, the programs can also perform keystroke monitoring, which enables employers to count the number of keys employees hit each minute and to determine how long employees spend away from their terminals in the bathroom, for instance. .... In a study completed earlier this year by CIO magazine and the Massachusetts-based research firm ICEX, slightly more than half of all companies surveyed utilized some sort of Internet monitoring software. ... "The biggest problem we see is people being caught off guard, doing things they wouldn't normally do if they knew they were under surveillance," says David Sobel, general counsel for the Washington, D.C.based Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). Examples abound. Recently, a worker complained to the National Employee Rights Institute that he'd been fired, despite 20 years of distinguished service, because he'd used the company e-mail system to keep track of some informal basketball bets placed by fellow employees. ... : the ACLU's Gruber recalls a complaint from an employee who was immediately terminated after writing an unflattering (but not libelous or defamatory) e-mail about his boss and sending it to another employee. "The courts have generally said that because the computer system is the property of the employer they can basically do whatever they want," says EPIC's Sobel. ... As Gruber puts it: "When you enter the workplace at nine you basically throw your copy of the Bill of Rights in the garbage and fish it out again at five on your way out." More than half of the companies in the CIO survey have formal Internet use policies, up from just 31 percent in 1996, says Rick Swanborg, who oversaw the study. Close to half prohibit all "nonbusiness" use of the Internet at all times. (In 1996, a little more than a third of companies outlawed all personal use of the Net.) .... Full text http://www.villagevoice.com/columns/9845/goldberg.shtml -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by published on: 1998-11-19 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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