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- Jan 30, 2001
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Originally posted by: her209
I used a company computer to pay my credit card bill and walked away from my workstation with my account open and the workstation unlocked and therefore it gives them the right to look at all my past statements and payments. Is that right?Originally posted by: JEDIYoda
the key words are..... I used a company computer to.....Originally posted by: hans007
Originally posted by: her209
I completely agree. The company owns everything in their network. They own any and all recorded data that traverses to and from their network. They are liable for it. And if the OP had used the company email account for correspondence communication, the company has every right to look through the employee's company mailbox and duplicate any e-mails. And if that were the case, then I'd side with the company.Originally posted by: BoomerD
wonder if the IT guy sent a nice "NO Thank you" to the folks offering the job? OR, plans on trying to get it himself?
I think that what they did sux, and is underhanded, and possibly borders on illegal, (accessing your external e-mail account and forwarding an e-mail in it, BUT, as others have noted, you have no real expectation to privacy when on a company network. THEY own it, and everything on it...NO, that doesn't give them the right to USE information, like PIN#'s, account numbers NOT related to work, etc, but they do have the right to access any information on their network.
The difference is that I used a company computer to login to a remote computer owned by yahoo. The only thing stored on the company's computer was my internet cookies.
Having what would amount to a stored password on a company computer, does not permit them to access my personal account.
As the example was said before, it they monitored my use of the internet obtained usernames/passwords to non work sites through my using of their computer it does not permit them to use those passwords/logins to access those sites because they would be impersonating me.
Fixed it to make it properly fit the OP context.