Re:Clear backpacks, monitored emails: U.S. students under co...
by chrisseaton on Monday December 02, 2019 @10:23AM
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Plenty of places in the EU routinely monitor customers and block certain websites. Rail companies blocking streaming sites for just one very reasonable example. It can’t be as simply illegal as you say it is.
Re:Clear backpacks, monitored emails: U.S. students under co...
by bobwaycott on Monday December 02, 2019 @10:28AM
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Monitoring and blocking are entirely different.
Re:Clear backpacks, monitored emails: U.S. students under co...
by chrisseaton on Monday December 02, 2019 @10:30AM
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How can you block without first monitoring what sites people are trying to access?
Re:Clear backpacks, monitored emails: U.S. students under co...
by ohazi on Monday December 02, 2019 @10:59AM
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There's usually a legal distinction. Blocking does require looking at the request, but the accept/request decision is made instantaneously and is usually based on a static blacklist (or whitelist). It doesn't necessarily require logging.
Monitoring usually means logging all activity and then automatically or manually sifting through the logs to look for things, possibly much later, and possibly in response to other subsequent events.
Monitoring is considered by most people to be worse, and may come with more legal liabilities.
Monitoring work or school internet use without specific prior suspicion is illegal in the entire EU; so this level of surveillance may be "standard" in some countries, but hardly globally.
> In China,
Not exactly the reference I was looking for, though from this perspective any level of surveillance is normal.