The question is what is personal property and what is corporate assets. As I said, I
Canada personal items, even if stored on a corporate computer, belong to the person
not the corporation. That is why there might be a problem with files downloaded from
the Internet on a corporate computer. If they were downloaded out of company time
(overnight say) and were not required by corporate contract, then they don't belong to
the corporation. The U.S. may have different law, since corporate rights seem to
overshadow personal rights in all kinds of ways, despite rhetoric about freedom of the
individual.
I just finished reading a section of Bruce Schneier's "Secrets & Lies" book that
concerns this. On page 60 he talks about the problems between the European Union (EU)
and the United States with respect to the 1998 EU Data Protection Act. Under European
(and now Canadian) law, it is illegal to share or sell data about an individual
collected by another. I, as a Canadian firewall administrator, now have to treat
firewall logs, sendmail logs etc. that might identify an individual as "protected"
data, kept under lock at all times. Management needs a signing officer's (VP etc.)
consent to review usage. One needs to have consent to have a help desk make a copy of
disk contents.
It does cause problems but it also clarifies the right to privacy.
It doesn't mean a corporation loses their assets but that there is a clearer line
between corporate information assets and personal information assets and that line is
not who owns the computer.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron DuFresne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 10:28
To: Bill Royds
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Truth or Fiction
is not personal privacy another issue altogether? This topic has not been
about personal privacy, but about corporate assessts, yes?
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
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