Privacy on the desktop is under siege with the latest real-time software giving Australian managers the ammunition to tap staff on the shoulder and tell them their time is up.
Australia is 18 months behind the US in the thought process behind workplace monitoring, still seeing pornography as the main type of content that needs managing, according to a visiting electronic surveillance expert.
Internet monitoring group SurfControl Australia has bolstered its bank balance on the back of the growing trend within local organisations to monitor workplace Internet usage.
The NSW government should be congratulated for its initiative to criminalise electronic "big brother" behaviour by bosses, a major union said today.
International experts have quashed claims from a local filtering software company that “75 percent of employees give the thumbs up to email monitoring”, saying its interpretation of a US survey is “slanted”.
Privacy advocates fear that a Web monitoring tool that is under development may lead to more covert surveillance.
A quarter of employers have sacked workers for how they use their e-mail -- and even for misuse of the office phone, a study shows.
Mobile phones are giving employers new ways to check up on employees in the field -- and raising fresh workplace privacy concerns as a result.
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