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U-Penn turned over faculty emails to the extremists who run a key House committee.

Everyone should remember that employees have almost no rights when it comes to what employers can do with communications.
https://www.thedp.com/article/2024/09/penn-cooperation-house-committee-condemned-mesa-letter?utm_source=Newsletters&utm_campaign=506570cca9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_09_05_09_32&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-506570cca9-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D.

in reply to Dan Gillmor

Patty for e pluribus unum
Patty for e pluribus unum
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If you use email provided by your employer or any device or server or software provided by your employer then they own it, you have ZERO expectation of privacy - well, if you think you do, you'd be wrong.
University faculty and staff regularly use university email as if it's private. It's not.
Be warned.
in reply to Patty for e pluribus unum

tallship
tallship
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It's almost not worth bothering to even mention this anymore, as anyone who's not a complete moron should intrinsically know this - considering the news coverage and legal proceedings resulting in the "no expectation of privacy", along with the "everything you do on company resources belongs to the company" paradigm that over the past several decades has been well established, very publicly.

Two things however, that may not have been realized by EVERYONE:

1. ) Anything you DO on company time belongs to the company as well. This includes ideas in your head imagined while on the clock.
2. ) Regardless of what you want to call it: #EMM, MDM, or the new buzz-acronym #UEM (which all means essentially the same thing), when coupled with #BYOD, also pierces your veil of privacy.

I've been on both ends of this for decades as an IT Professional. It's ugly and can be destructive to your (expensive) personal property, so I recommend...

a.) First, don't do ANYTHING on your own personal devices when you're on someone else's clock! See #1 above.

b.) When you show up to work on your first day and they send you down to HR and then tech support, it's very common for them to innocuously ask to see your phone, at which point they'll install an #MDM on it. The best thing you can do then and there is to inform them that if anyone EVER touches your phone you'll break their fucking fingers; and if they want you to have a mobile device with an MDM/UEM installed on it, they can issue one for you from their inventory of existing corporate assets. Otherwise, pound sand bitches.

#tallship #surveillance #privacy #Intellectual_Property #Copyright #Trademark

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#privacy #surveillance #copyright #1 #tallship #trademark #intellectual_property #byod #emm #uem #mdm
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