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FreeStateDemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-30-07 10:08 AM
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How to Lose Your Job on Your Own Time
By RANDALL STROSS
Published: December 30, 2007

WERE Henry Ford brought back to life today, he would most likely be delighted by the Internet: the uninhibited way many people express themselves on the Web makes it easy to supervise the private lives of employees.

In his day, the Ford Motor Company maintained a “Sociological Department” staffed with investigators who visited the homes of all but the highest-level managers. Their job was to dig for information about the employee’s religion, spending and savings patterns, drinking habits and how the worker “amused himself.”

Home inspections are no longer needed; many companies are using the Internet to snoop on their employees. If you fail to maintain amorphous “professional” standards of conduct in your free time, you could lose your job.

Employment law in most states provides little protection to workers who are punished for their online postings, said George Lenard, an employment lawyer at Harris Dowell Fisher & Harris in St. Louis. The main exceptions are workers who are covered by collective bargaining agreements or by special protections for public-sector employees; members of these groups can be dismissed only “for cause.” The rest of us are “at will” employees, holding on to our jobs only at the whim of our employers, and thus vulnerable. (contd)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/business/30digi.html?ref=technology
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mdmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-30-07 10:13 AM
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1. taft hartley
:kick:
Stand with the workers or with the corporations.
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-30-07 10:18 AM
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2. While Henry himself was banging his 19-year-old secretary.
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-30-07 10:51 AM
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4. maybe thats why his cars were hands down the best for the money
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flashl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-30-07 10:47 AM
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3. Old DU Post ..
We have a PGP 5th Am 'right'?

Judge: Man can't be forced to divulge encryption passphrase

A federal judge in Vermont has ruled that prosecutors can't force a criminal defendant accused of having illegal images on his hard drive to divulge his PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) passphrase.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Jerome Niedermeier ruled that a man charged with transporting child pornography on his laptop across the Canadian border has a Fifth Amendment right not to turn over the passphrase to prosecutors. The Fifth Amendment protects the right to avoid self-incrimination.


if this ruling is appealed, U.S. v. Boucher could become a landmark case. The question of whether a criminal defendant can be legally compelled to cough up his encryption passphrase remains an unsettled one, with law review articles for the last decade arguing the merits of either approach. (A U.S. Justice Department attorney wrote an article in 1996, for instance, titled "Compelled Production of Plaintext and Keys.")


What do you think? PGP 5th Am. is a protection?
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-30-07 10:54 AM
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6. Interesting.
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-30-07 10:52 AM
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5. (Primarily Online) Identity Management is going to be *the* hot new thing in the 21st Century.
...egh.
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avenger64 Donating Member (554 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-30-07 10:59 AM
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7. Alright, no more naked pictures of myself rolling in filth ...
... they were unseemly, anyway.
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