Privacy in the workplace

[Don]

Hi Ron,

Well the entire public school system here has a puter with internet access
in *every* room of every school...and they track it. Every blessed spot!

At 11:21 AM 9/16/98 -0400, you wrote:
>On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Michael Jorgensen wrote:
>
>> Horace,
>>     Here in Michigan we have a law that says any school or university
>> worker covered under state retirement plan and convicted of a
>> misdemeanor connected with thier job can lose all of their retirement
>> benefits.
>
>A *misdemeanor*? I'll have to look that one up.
>
>> If I surf the net or use this machine for personal e-mail, is
>> there a record so that they could say I was "stealing university
>> computer time" therefore lose all my retirement?  I wouldn't put it past
>> them!!
>
>Can you imagine the incredible amount of data that would have to be stored
>in order to track where every single machine on the university's system
>went on the web? The data that you receive, while surfing the web, is
>stored on your machine's hard disk.  I can't imagine any network being set
>up to record every URL resolved by web browsers on every machine on the
>network!  Talk about a wealth of information! Egads.
>
>Ron Torrella, RPT
>Piano Technician
>University of Michigan
>School of Music
>
>
>
Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.
"Tuner for the Centre of the Arts"
drose@dlcwest.com
http://www.dlcwest.com/~drose/
3004 Grant Rd.
REGINA, SK
S4S 5G7
306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner