Bosses' Power To Check Email
Posted by: Joyce in work, online safety, internet safety, current affairs, careers on Apr 18, 2008
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Bosses' Power To Check Email!
I found this in the news today....you may have seen it. We've been through this in the US and now from Sydney, Australia.
There's a story in the The Sydney Morning Herald about how the Australian government is backing legal rights to businesses to spy on their employees. Companies will be able to intercept the emails and internet communications of their employees without their consent under the new proposed laws.
The idea is that the Government thinks its going to protect what they call the "nation's critical infrastructure" from a cyber attack.
It never ceases to amaze me just how silly politicians can be. To think something like this can protect a country or people for that matter shows that the people in charge have no idea what they are dealing with.
Who proposed this and how did they get elected? Also, we have the same issues here,in America. This is rote intrusion on civil liberties.
Cybersafety, personal safety via the Internet, is an educational process. Each indivudal needs to take the responsiblity to learn how to smartly and safely ply the web. Adults need to teach children how to safelyusethe web. If governments wanted to mandate laws let them strengthen and increase the penalties for the predators and criminals out their that spoil the web for us. Clamping down with laws like these proposed will create an absolutely ineffective set of laws that will muddle the legal system and sit on the books for wasted decades.
The laws, simply, will not work or do what the short sighted politicians think they will do.
bookmark This Article I found this in the news today....you may have seen it. We've been through this in the US and now from Sydney, Australia.
There's a story in the The Sydney Morning Herald about how the Australian government is backing legal rights to businesses to spy on their employees. Companies will be able to intercept the emails and internet communications of their employees without their consent under the new proposed laws.
The idea is that the Government thinks its going to protect what they call the "nation's critical infrastructure" from a cyber attack.
It never ceases to amaze me just how silly politicians can be. To think something like this can protect a country or people for that matter shows that the people in charge have no idea what they are dealing with.
Who proposed this and how did they get elected? Also, we have the same issues here,in America. This is rote intrusion on civil liberties.
Cybersafety, personal safety via the Internet, is an educational process. Each indivudal needs to take the responsiblity to learn how to smartly and safely ply the web. Adults need to teach children how to safelyusethe web. If governments wanted to mandate laws let them strengthen and increase the penalties for the predators and criminals out their that spoil the web for us. Clamping down with laws like these proposed will create an absolutely ineffective set of laws that will muddle the legal system and sit on the books for wasted decades.
The laws, simply, will not work or do what the short sighted politicians think they will do.
