Amanda,
I would recommend that you get together with them and their legal team
(assuming they have one) and make sure that you're not violating
anyone's privacy rights. I worked on a questionable application in my
past as well. It was a tool that allowed the system administrators to
do reporting on the logs from their firewalls. They wanted to use it to
do bandwidth analysis and stuff. However, part of what it could do was
search for keywords in the URLs of sites that people were visiting.
This meant that they could search for obscene words, find the people
that hit those URLs, and possibly make judgments about what the person
was doing at that site. We got legal involved and they drew some fine
lines around what we could and couldn't do and what the system admin
could and couldn't reliably assume from the log reports.
It's a touchy subject and if you are feeling uncomfortable, I'd
recommend bringing everyone in on it and clarifying things. Ultimately,
the responsibility falls in the hands of the people that use the
application and make decisions on it, but I know where you're coming
from in being responsible for writing the code that produces the results
that they'll be looking at.
Good luck! :)
-Tyson
-----Original Message-----
From: Amanda Stern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 2:25 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: legal question?????
Hello,
Not sure if anyone can answer this question/concern
for me but will ask anyways.....I have been creating
some reports for HR that will be used internally to
keep track of our employees work(ie number of items
completed, average numbers etc). One of the averages
I am being asked to report will be a very skewed
number and I am concerned because these averages are
used to "grade" employees. People have been let go
over these numbers. Bottom line is, I do not want to
have any numbers on my report that I already know are
skewed. I expressed my concern to my employer and
they agreed that the numbers will be off but they want
it anyways and they say they will take that into
consideration. Am I in anyway liable or am I being
paranoid???
:)
Thanks,
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