Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat

Re:Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat by wil421 on Friday February 09, 2024 @05:56AM (#39313568)

Why would anyone consider a company provided messaging service as private? Or even a company provided laptop, cellphone, etc.

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Re:Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat by adastra22 on Friday February 09, 2024 @10:17AM (#39315611)

People have terrible opsec.

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Re:Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat by TimTheTinker on Friday February 09, 2024 @10:25AM (#39315699)

Because private messages carry an expectation of privacy.

They're different parts of speech from the same root word, after all.

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Re:Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat by adastra22 on Friday February 09, 2024 @10:35AM (#39315805)

There’s no legal obligation of privacy on a work system though. Not in the US at least.

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Re:Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat by voidfunc on Friday February 09, 2024 @01:56PM (#39318804)

The only expectation of this is in your head. It is a fantasy that doesn't exist.

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Re:Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat by TimTheTinker on Friday February 09, 2024 @05:54PM (#39321506)

I know that legally, employee data has no expectation of privacy. But I'd like to gently push back here.

The word "private" means "having privacy" in the normal, everyday sense. Using that word to describe something that isn't private is lying. You and I both know there do exist many people who suffered consequences for not understanding the definition of that word.

In my opinion, the ethical thing to do is to use a different word when no expectation of privacy applies. And the upside is powerful: transparency gains trust.

Slack did this well: they call them "direct messages".

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