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Re:There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home by potamic on Friday December 17, 2021 @12:18AM (#29588123)
> I am mildly concerned about 'company' attempting to monitor wifi traffic

It is possible to do this? Also, would it not be very illegal?

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Re:There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home by heavyset_go on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:05AM (#29588470)
> It is possible to do this?

Yes. Intrusion detection software will want to know everything about the network and peers.

> Also, would it not be very illegal?

You've likely already agreed to let your employer and their equipment do whatever they want it to do.

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Re:There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home by schwede on Friday December 17, 2021 @12:29AM (#29588202)
Wireshark can pick up any traffic on your WiFi network so they could run something similar.
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Re:There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home by missingrib on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:29PM (#29596181)
Wouldn't it be encrypted HTTPS traffic?
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Re:There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home by sofixa on Friday December 17, 2021 @02:41AM (#29589089)
> Also, would it not be very illegal

Depends on the jurisdiction. In the EU, very much so.

A ruling from a few years ago, and regulations are only getting tighter ( this was pre-GDPR): https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/sep/05/romanian-chat-me...

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