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Comment from AN Other on 2011-10-30

2011-10-30T23:27:58Z

Employers CAN track you; but if you are allowed to surf personal things, keep it strictly to "clean" stuff, like news websites, PCPro magazine, the local newspapers, AutoTrader (as examples).

However, be aware the logs are deleted after a fair period of time, usually 6 or so months, but it varies.

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Comment from Mark J on 2011-09-27

2011-09-28T04:57:21Z

@Bess
Your employer can see any activity that happens on their network.

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Comment from Bess on 2011-09-27

2011-09-27T21:41:12Z

This sort of answers my question but not fully. What about if you are using your personal computer at work? I am using the company's internet, which is allowed after business hours, since we actually live on site. I am wondering if my employer can see what sites I'm visiting even though they have no access to my computer?

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Comment from yksharma on 2010-05-26

2010-05-26T18:35:10Z

Its ok that the facility is being provided by the employer and so on,but is not the fundamental priviledge for the user to get his data safe for his use.is it not a sort of enchroachement in some bodies privacy.
Kindly suggest some means to check such intrusion.And what should be checked on the machine to confirm such intrusions.

You cannot conclusively check for or rule out monitoring, you must simply assume that your computer and your communications can be tracked.

27-May-2010

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Comment from John Doe on 2010-05-25

2010-05-25T17:13:15Z

Just use www.anonymizer.com if you feel you absolutely must handle some personal business on your work computer. Yes, your employer will be able to see you went to the anonymizer site, but everything you visit through the anonymizer portal will be invisible to your boss.

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Comment from Andy on 2010-05-13

2010-05-13T09:09:40Z

It is worth mentioning that companies most often have privacy policies or general IT policies that are shared upfront with all employees who, in return, are obligated to sign on these in agreement before start of employment. Such policies would admit to these "snooping" behaviors or "the right to snoop" in the event of suspected employee behavior. Bosses must be clear about this however because it pre-warns employees and deters them from misusing company resources.

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Comment from MM on 2010-05-12

2010-05-12T20:19:35Z

If your employer is paying for the computer, and the Internet access, is it not reasonable that they expect it will be used for work? Also where you are allowed personal access, is it not reasonable that the employee will not visit sites which may bring negative publicity to the firm? Think of two recent examples, the McQaurie bank employee accessing pictures of a nearly naked supermodel on his computer, while behind him, a fellow employee is doing the nightly financial news broadcast, so instantly this is broadcast Australia wide. Secondly the whole world now knows that one of the large financial houses were doing porn on the Net while the GFC was in meltdown around them - Nero fiddles while Rome burns? Is that a place you would feel safe for your money? If you don't want your employer to monitor your computer use, use your home one, and visit what you like, where you like, when you like.

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Comment from David Ziegler on 2010-05-11

2010-05-11T19:00:13Z

Thanks, Leo.

I'm glad you made the main point. It deserves repeating:

Your employer owns the computer, with all its capabilities, you use at work. Therefore, your employer has every right to monitor it for any reason or no reason at all.

It may be a PC, but it's not your personal computer.

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Comment from Al on 2010-05-11

2010-05-11T15:43:16Z

If my work laptop is attached to my home network, what is the best way to ensure that my employer doesn't see the rest of the network?

If you're seriously concerned, I'd use a second or third router, as in How do I protect myself from my children?

13-May-2010

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Comment from pedro on 2009-06-30

2009-06-30T20:17:53Z

can my employeer read my yahoo,aol,msn, etc, emails?

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-09-12

2007-09-12T17:53:08Z

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Yes. An employer could certainly set things up to retrieve your deleted emails.
Most commonly, I would guess, by capturing them all before you even see them.

Leo

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Comment from Tina on 2007-09-11

2007-09-12T02:40:18Z

Thanks for your answer.
Can the employer retrieve my old emails once I have trashed them?

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Comment from Tony Webb on 2007-05-18

2007-05-19T05:05:39Z

I'll give the same answer as Leo - Yes employers can track your activity. I sell what is know in the trade as 'content filtering software'. Its stops end users doing anything that is non business on company machines and company time. For web filtering the product works from a database of millions of categorized URL's. From this they can grant access to business related sites and stop non business related sites from being requested. It will actively block and report, on individual users, groups or domains activity and can be scheduled to send reports to heads of depts, HR etc. It even has a catagory for proxy avoidance for the hardened end user. Obviously rules and policy can be set to allow users to surf during their dinner if they require, as long as the sites visited do not cause offence to anyone, porn etc, to a colleague or compromise the integrity of the network, spyware and viruses etc.

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