[Gllug] User Internet monitoring

[Alistair Mann]

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Thus spaketh Stephen Harker on Thursday 12 June 2003 3:40 pm:
> Hi All,
> After a particularly nasty run-in with an employee of the company I work
> for, I started running a report ( http://web.onda.com.br/orso/sarg.html )
> once a day which gives a breakdown of each PC's access and where and when
> sites were accessed and a bunch of stats. It has revealed a couple of
> interesting trends about certain peoples internet usage during company
> time.
>
> Does anyone have any experience in the legalities of this sort of
> monitoring. It states clearly in the network policy of the company (that
> all employees sign) that email will be logged and monitored and also that
> PC's found with inappropriate material will be deemed gross misconduct
> etc...
>
> Comments?

It seems a tad lazy of you to put 'etc' when what your policy says is directly 
relevant to the legality of what you're doing. Are we to somehow guess the 
policy?

If your policy states only that you'll monitor email and occasionally check 
user machines, then your monitoring is illegal. If you have specifically said 
you'll monitor Internet usage, then it is legal. In general terms!

You may like to take a less confrontational route. For instance, a linux box 
running driftnet would display on a common area monitor most of the images 
moving over the wires. That has a big effect on Internet usage.

Cheers,
- -- 
Alistair
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