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An Engineer’s Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta (www.wired.com)
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[+] -9 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Not a privacy invasion if it's a laptop given by the company. Do not do personal tasks on a computer you don't own, keep your personal devices and work devices seperate.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Why is this man getting downvoted?? I'm not saying what META is doing is right....but to act surprised as an employee of META??? Like if I worked there I'd ASSUME they already were doing that without telling me, why the hell would you do private stuff on a device you do not own?? Whats next? We getting shocked when you get robbed in a area with a high crime rate?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    The difference is between doing it secretly or in the open.

    I assume I'm monitored on my work computer, but me and my company both know they aren't supposed to.

    When they admit it and make you look them in the eye and consent to it, that's when the social contract unravels in a big way.

    There's a line from a great comedy in which an oligarch is berating his son for playing elaborate games to ruin the life of a schlub who once disrespected him, right after we see the oligarch at a party where people are shitting on glass coffee tables with prostitutes under them. The son says, "How is it any different from what you do?!?" And the dad says, in a posh Oxford accent, "The glass, son. The glass."

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I would expect privacy on a library computer, or an internet cafe, but a computer given by a company is dedicated to work and work only, unless specified explicitly otherwise (as in given fully as a gift). Letting people run unknown software on a company computer could lead to malware attacks and data breaches, so companies that give its employees computers will manage how they're handled with an IT team.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    This exactly. My company has a disclaimer everytime you log into a system to tell you as much. "there is not expectation of privacy".

    We don't have the same level of keylogging and webcams access that they are talking about here. But I think most people would be surprised at the amount that we can see.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Beside the « personal tasks » or generally any personal data that might be processed locally by performing those - which are likely allowed to a certain extent by internal policies in large companies - the behaviour determination by keystroke / microphone / camera analysis is a privacy concern whatever data is involved.

    It’s a level of surveillance that goes way to far. This is indeed a step too far.

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