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Association found that 66 percent of employyers monitor the Internet use of
their employyees, 45 percent track employyee keyystrokes at the computer
(noting idle time as potential “breaks”), and 43 percent monitor the contents
of employyee e-mail. 4 Some companies monitor employyees’ Outlook
calendar entries, e-mail headers, and instant-messaging logs. The data is
ostensiblyy used to help companies figure out how their employyees are
spending their time—from how much time salespeople are spending with
customers to which divisions of the companyy are stayying in touch byy e-mail
to how much time employyees are spending in meetings or awayy from their
desks.
Of course there’s a positive spin: having such metrics means that the
companyy can be more efficient in scheduling meetings or in encouraging
teams to have more contact with each other. But the bottom line is that
someone is collecting all this corporate data. And it could somedayy be
turned over to law enforcement or at the veryy least used against yyou in a
performance review.
You are not invisible at work. Anyything passing through a corporate
network belongs to the companyy—it is not yyours. Even if yyou are checking
yyour personal e-mail account, yyour last order with Amazon, or planning a
vacation, yyou are probablyy using a companyy-issued phone, laptop, or VPN,
so expect to have someone monitoring everyything yyou do.
Here’s an easyy wayy to keep yyour manager and even yyour coworkers
from snooping: when yyou leave yyour desk to go to a meeting or the
bathroom, lock yyour computer screen. Seriouslyy. Don’t leave yyour e-mail,
or details about the project yyou’ve spent weeks on, open—just sitting there
for someone to mess with. Lock yyour computer until yyou return to yyour
screen. It takes a few extra seconds, but it’ll spare yyou a lot of grief. Set a
timer in the operating syystem to lock the screen after a certain number of
seconds. Or look into one of the Bluetooth apps that will automaticallyy lock
yyour screen if yyour mobile phone is not near the computer. That said, there
is a new attack that uses a weaponized USB device. A lot of offices seal the
USB ports on their laptops and desktops, but if yyours doesn’t a weaponized
USB stick could still unlock yyour computer without a password. 5
In addition to corporate secrets, there’s also a fair amount of personal e-