What is it that you don't want seen by a company representative, on a company computer, while being paid by the company?
What is it that you don't want seen by a company representative, on a company computer, while being paid by the company?
If I do a google search for "cake toppers for lesbian wedding" while my code's compiling, that's morally fine. But if a bored "company representative" decides to take offense to that, now it's a whole goddamn situation that I have to deal with.
Or if I'm on Stack Overflow to copy&paste, and one of the "Hot Network Questions" in the sidebar has an "offensive" phrase in it, is it going to trip their automated flagging criteria?
Maybe you'll sue for it. Maybe all those activity logs become part of the evidence. Maybe there are other people who got fired under similar circumstances, and you form a class action... After all, who can say that the company isn't engaging in illegal discriminatory behavior based on those logs, simply because the logs were conveniently available and detailed?
Lots of big potential problems here for everyone.
Can you answer this directly: How many people's computers, servers, and backups should video of my child be on?
"seen"
Same idea, and maybe you wouldn’t mind but surely you can see why many people would.
FWIW enough people do mind that this kind of thing is illegal in some countries.
The attitude of some employers is very poor.
I haven't seen this implemented for developer workstations; generally BYOD is forbidden for computers. I have seen this implemented for cellphones. If you want to use a personal cellphone for work, you have to install their MDM app and the device becomes, in effect, the company's cellphone.