Came here to ask just this. Even if the journalist/contractor were being as sloppy as possible with netsec, HTTPS would protect traffic between browser and Google's servers. But I'm guessing a place like Facebook would have proxy servers that could be inspecting the traffic if it were done at work? But if the employee took screenshots and waited until they were home to send them, he'd be OK, right? The article says he did this from his personal laptop:

> So when Zuckerberg’s admonition circulated, a young contract employee named Benjamin Fearnow decided it might be newsworthy. He took a screenshot on his personal laptop and sent the image to a friend named Michael Nuñez, who worked at the tech-news site Gizmodo. Nuñez promptly published a brief story about Zuckerberg’s memo.

You're thinking too much into it. They might just record the screen every few seconds and save it to their servers. There's software that does this easily.

The story isn't completely specific on the chain of events, i.e. the sending of the screenshot on his personal laptop may have been done in addition to using GChat at work. But if he indeed was using his personal laptop at work (as many contractors do, though I can't speak for what it's like at Facebook), how is screen-recording software simpler than a proxy server? Aren't proxy servers used by corporate IT to screen incoming/outgoing traffic for possible malware?

Possibly G Suite (formerly Google Apps for Domains).

https://gsuite.google.com

But it has a very bad smell about it. Rather like a brown shirt.