The case that I am considering the password was obtained via a program that records all the key strokes on the computer. I also wonder which countries it is illegal in outside of USA.
2007-02-10 08:45:44 · 18 answers · asked by blurt2M 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
there is no expectation of privacy at work, and especially using work owned computers.that's what the courts have ruled. the only place the boss cant watch or record is in the bathroom.
2007-02-10 08:55:34 · answer #1 · answered by Jen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is sort of violating their own security I would think, but to answer your question, anything you do on their computer is theirs, and that includes logging into private accounts. If it is a company e-mail account, it is quite legal. A general mailer, well, stop doing it. Go home, change the password from there, and never log in from work again. Then start lining up a new employer. Yours stinks -Dio
2016-03-29 01:17:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not legal for an employer to log into an employee's Yahoo email account without their consent regardless if they had obtained the password through keystroke technology. They can however read your e-mails if you opened them on company time and they were logging your keystrokes.
It is however now law that any e-mails sent from a company's e-mail system are to be saved and filed for future reference to be used as evidence, if needed, in legal actions.
2007-02-10 08:56:50 · answer #3 · answered by RoS 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is unfortunate, but the truth is that, your rights under the constitution are left at the doorstep of your employer. Whereas the computer is company property, on company property, used for company business, it is the owners right to regulate its usage.
If the yahoo account is your own personal account you may claim an infringement, provided, the company home page is not Yahoo. By claiming such you acknowledge that you utilized the companies computer and time for actions not related to your work. In effect, there is a creek and you are trying to paddle...
Change your Yahoo account immediately to safeguard yourself. Come clean and admit your inadvertant usage of the company time and property to check on incoming messages that you felt were important. In effect the creek you are in is not made of water.
2007-02-10 09:01:43 · answer #4 · answered by jerry g 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you're using THEIR resources and it's on THEIR time, you bet it's legal. They sent notes to us where I worked to tell us they could (and would) be watching. They seldom did, but they had the right to nonetheless.
Maybe it's not that they actually logged INTO your Yahoo email, but they used the key stroke records to determine what it was you were typing while ON your Yahoo account.
What are your options? If you want to work there and you want a paycheck from them, and you know they are doing this, don't sign on while at work and they won't have anything to be used as evidence against you.
Good luck.
2007-02-10 08:53:29 · answer #5 · answered by KOKOMOJO 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You probably signed some sort of statement giving your employer permission to access anything you do on your computer.. so it is legal.. if you don't want your employer to access it.. don't use your work computer for access.. go to a library or home.. and make sure you change your password.
2007-02-10 08:54:53 · answer #6 · answered by ♥Tom♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its legal. They own the computer, they pay for the internet, its their server and if you happen to be doing illegal activities online at work they can get in trouble. You probably signed some agrement on this when you started working there anyway. Just start checking your email from home
2007-02-10 08:54:31 · answer #7 · answered by 7 Words You Can't Say On T.V 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you are using your companies computer, it belongs to them and yes, they can access anything on that computer, without violating the law in many/most states. Yahoo Mail, being web based, you should change your Yahoo p/w and do not access it from your employers hardware/software and he/she will not be able to access it by using they keystroke software.
The computer you use at work does not belong to you.
2007-02-10 08:52:04 · answer #8 · answered by Suzan 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Last I heard the employer owns the computers in his place of business. He has the right to see who is working his prescribed number of hours and who is playing solitaire, or worse.
If you had not tried to access your Yahoo account while at the office, he would not have known about it.
"A word to the wise ..."
2007-02-10 09:23:59 · answer #9 · answered by TheHumbleOne 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
An employer has the right to track anything you do on their computers and many if not most do. They also have the right to listen in on you telephone conversations made on their phones.
2007-02-10 11:12:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋