This is to be expected from Big Brother. These days one should assume the telescreen is always watching and so should be very cautious as to not commit a thoughtcrime.
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To clarify; my comment is referring to the novel 1984. While a bit tongue in cheek, it was not meant entirely as a joke.
This is a forum visited mostly by IT workers. I would assume most of us here know enough (or should know enough) to realize that any of our communications at work can be read by someone else and so you may want to treat it a bit as such.
In my personal programming working experience I have seen data captured in all of the following forms, reviewed, and then used to fire or prevent firing individuals.
---- Edit ----
To clarify; my comment is referring to the novel 1984. While a bit tongue in cheek, it was not meant entirely as a joke.
This is a forum visited mostly by IT workers. I would assume most of us here know enough (or should know enough) to realize that any of our communications at work can be read by someone else and so you may want to treat it a bit as such.
In my personal programming working experience I have seen data captured in all of the following forms, reviewed, and then used to fire or prevent firing individuals.
Email, Instant messaging, Phone calls (audio recordings), Computer monitor (video recordings)