Corporate Surveillance/Meeting Notes 2018-02-12
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Corporate Surveillance
- Date
- Monday, 12 February 2018 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm
- Meetup Event
- https://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/245128116
- Location
- First United Church, 16 William St West, Waterloo, ON Map
How do we keep our workplaces secure? Does your organization use cameras? Does it filter web content? Check for document exfiltration? Inspect e-mail? Monitor keystrokes? Is this sneaky, underhanded spying, or merely good business practice? What are the ethics of corporate surveillance for System Administrators?
Join Kitchener-Waterloo Non-Profit System Administrators at our monthly round table meeting for a technical, philosophical and moral discussion.
--Bob Jonkman & Marc Paré
Resources
Office Audit and Control Management Server | TechSoup Canada
Meeting Notes
Notes taken by Bob Jonkman
- Most corporate management is meant to ensure computers aren't altered, no viruses are introduced
- Bob has worked in place that check all outbound e-mail for keywords, looking for data exfiltration.
- Some exfiltration data is monitored for employees' protection, also video camera footage
Software
Ethics
- Is this legal? Yes, employees sign contracts allowing this to take place, and that all data belongs to them
- Including "shower ideas", that are developed outside of company time
- Some places allow "reasonable use" of telephone, internet.
- Do employees even know they're being monitored?
- There may be pop-up messages indicating that USB-drives are inserted, &c.
- Sometimes you see evidence of SysAdmins taking remote control
- Some places archive e-mail for several months
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