Privacy in the workplace

[Ron Torrella]

On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Don wrote:

> 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!

There *is* software that does this (I'm thinking NetNanny and the like.).
I just don't see that kind of BigBrother stuff going on in a university
community where you have thousands -- maybe hundreds of thousands -- of
computers on the system.  In a public school system, I can see that.  Not
at a major university, though.

> >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.
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Ron Torrella, RPT
Piano Technician
University of Michigan
School of Music