network monitoring

[Nigel Henry]

On Tuesday 05 June 2007 22:23, Dan McCullough wrote:
2nd reply
> One other thing, in the states if you as a company are actively
> monitoring/tracking email, im and internet usage and an employee does
> something illegal, you the company could be held liable as well so I
> would also make sure that you know all the laws concerning monitoring.
>

My reply

This makes for a real hornet's nest of problems then. If I understand you 
correctly. You, and the company monitor your employees. If one of your 
employees sends for example, a racist email, and you've seen it, and not 
notified the authorities, you, and the company then become responsible also, 
as it it were a partner in crime.

How does that go if you arn't monitoring your employees Internet activity? Are 
you/the company still responsible legally for what your employees do on their 
machines while at work?

Nigel.







1st reply
> On 6/5/07, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb at tiscali.fr> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 05 June 2007 19:57, Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote:
> > > El Martes, 5 de Junio de 2007 19:45, Frank Cox escribió:
> > > > On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:25:58 +0200
> > > >
> > > > I assume this is to prevent anyone from saying, "But I told you on
> > > > MSN that I wanted you to sell that stock yesterday" after the bottom
> > > > falls out.
> > >
> > > If that's true, why not only keeping a log of the company instant
> > > messaging system? (If available)
> > >
> > > The point was, I'd like to know if he's going to inform his users about
> > > all this stuff
> > > --
> > > Manuel Arostegui Ramirez.
> >
> > I may be wrong. but seem to remember that Yogesh asked about setting up
> > an Internet café a while back. If that's so, perhaps he just wants to
> > make sure his clients arn't accessing dodgy sites, etc.
> >
> > I have no idea as to how responsible an owner of an Internet café would
> > be if some of his clients were accessing seriously dodgy porn sites. And
> > I mean the worst kind, or were older people carrying on dirty talk with
> > young people by means of IM.
> >
> > Under such circumstances I can well understand the need to know what your
> > clients are doing on machines that on the bottom line, you are
> > responsible for.
> >
> > As you say Manuel his clients/employees would need to be very well aware
> > that their Internet activity was being monitored, and that they the
> > client/employee would ultimately be responsible for what they did on the
> > Internet.
> >
> > Not so easy to track down someone who wanders into an Internet café off
> > the street though. They come in, in anonimity, do what they want on your
> > machine, and go out in anonimity.
> >
> > I only mention this, as I'd thought about setting up an Internet café,
> > but now think that it's not worth the hassle if you are responsible for
> > what your clients do on your machines while online.
> >
> > Nigel.
> >
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