Surveillance at work.

Employees, beware! Your employer may be spying on you...

Americans are trapped in a technological and demographic change that has increasingly pulled our personal communications into our offices. According to a 2006 survey from the U.S. Census Bureau, 54.6 percent of all married couples now have both husband and wife in the workforce, so those calls to the school principal, transactions with online banking and lovers' spats will inevitably take place using company computers and telephones—especially with the corporate e-mail market expected to expand more than tenfold to 130 million accounts worldwide by the end of 2010. And while a large majority of Americans actually favor more forms of surveillance for law enforcement, many of the personal expectations they still hold dear don’t apply when punching in 9-to-5. “I always tell people, ‘There is no true privacy in this country any more,’” says lawyer Sharon D. Nelson, president of Sensei Enterprises, a consulting firm specializing in legal technology and computer forensics. “And that’s more true at the workplace than anywhere else.”

You may think the data is yours, but the equipment is theirs, and employers reserve the right to micromanage all the bits and packets on their networks, computers and mobile devices.

Via Instapundit.
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