Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, because I know you are

Re:Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, ... by renewiltord on Thursday June 24, 2021 @04:16PM (#27623216)

Okay, man, I’ll trust that you’re doing this because they were stealing stuff or something like that but if it’s just sucking at their job then damn, dude. That’s like kinda a shitty thing.

Sure it’s company hardware, and you get to do this shit but damn that shit would be like “I gotta get out of here” if I heard IT was scanning people’s browser history for sucking at their jobs.

EDIT: The lawsuit thing makes this even worse. If I even heard that someone was suing their employees for poor performance I am like straight up blackballing that company and all of its damn subsidiaries as places to work. Like my friends would know, my family would know, friends of my family would know. I’m sorry, this is straight up unacceptable to me.

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Re:Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, ... by nasalgoat on Thursday June 24, 2021 @04:21PM (#27623262)

It's important to document and archive the contents for liability reasons, but the takeaway here is that you should remember that the laptop belongs to the company and you have zero rights to privacy on it, so conduct yourself appropriately.

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Re:Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, ... by makapuf on Thursday June 24, 2021 @04:30PM (#27623368)

Depends where. Here in Europe it has been said that a Personal folder cannot be looked at by the company. But ofc it can ask you to delete it or fire you if you spend too much time idling but Personal data is Personal.

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Re:Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, ... by grahamburger on Thursday June 24, 2021 @04:53PM (#27623609)

This is a major cultural difference between US and EU. In the U.S., data is only Personal if it's on a Personal device.

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Re:Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, ... by p_j_w on Thursday June 24, 2021 @04:30PM (#27623373)

>It's important to document and archive the contents for liability reasons

Unless this guy was sexually harassing people, I'm curious how this is going to protect anyone from any kind of liability.

>you should remember that the laptop belongs to the company and you have zero rights to privacy on it, so conduct yourself appropriately.

Yes, but as others have mentioned, just because the company has the right to do that doesn't mean it's either ethical OR good. No one here was asserting the right to privacy on company owned hardware.

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Re:Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, ... by vlunkr on Thursday June 24, 2021 @04:20PM (#27623261)

Agreed. If he's already been let go, who cares what's on his laptop?

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Re:Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, ... by reidjs on Thursday June 24, 2021 @04:19PM (#27623248)

I assume it's for liability reasons in case they start a lawsuit.

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Re:Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, ... by Causality1 on Thursday June 24, 2021 @04:40PM (#27623449)

I pretty much assume they're watching everything I do on a work computer. I don't do anything that would be too embarrassing to see sitting printed out on my supervisor's desk.

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Re:Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, ... by wilsonrocks on Thursday June 24, 2021 @05:23PM (#27623970)

Same here. It's my only Windows machine and the only one that reliably prints some PDFs. If they cared that I'm printing out MLP RPG sheets to play with my daughter I'll have that conversation.

I Never have work email on any other device but works.

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