Re: Employer has the right of *auditing* (=scanning content) of employees hard disks?
- From: PeteM <Andromeda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:05:53 +0000
TimB <stokefolk@xxxxxxxxx> posted
>
>Here's a view from the IT side of the wall. The computer you use is not
>yours, and you should not keep any personal information, or indeed
>anything at all, on it. If you want to save something, save it to your
>private area of the network, which is accessible only by you, the IT
>dept, and the Internal Audit dept.
>
>IT don't 'check' hard drive contents on PC's as such, unless there's a
>problem. However, if there is a problem, chances are we'll just
>reformat your PC. You've saved a load of stuff on there that you
>needed? Tough.
It certainly would be tough on the company if the reformatted disk
happened to have held the only copies of some commercially vital data.
If I were running a company where an IT staffer deliberately deleted the
contents of a user's disk without asking permission, I would sack the IT
guy instantly. His feet would not touch the proverbial.
>You've just learned the hard way WHY we tell you to use
>your network area.
About five years ago, working for a big London-based publishing company,
I learned the hard way why one *shouldn't* do that.
One weekend the IT people moved our documents from an old server to a
new one. They inadvertently deleted the archive of published articles.
No problem, they said, we'll restore it from the tape backups.
They never found the tape backups. They had (allegedly) been done by a
junior support guy who left a few weeks earlier. Nobody knew how to
recover them.
So they lost *all* of my archives. OK, it didn't fold the company; but
it made my job significantly harder for many months.
You will say, ah but they were incompetent. Right. Lots of IT
departments are incompetent: good people are hard to get and the staff
turnover is very high. Such is life.
After that experience I have always worked on my own local disk. At the
end of the day I copy all new documents to my server directory.
--
PeteM
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