Secondly, on company property, the current law dictates that individuals generally have no rights. They can be monitored, taped, and video recorded, anytime, anywhere, as long as the individual is on company property using company resources. What few rights employees do retain generally don't apply to Internet-based activity because the laws have yet to catch up to the technology. Corporate network administrators have the ability to monitor the activities of any given station, seeing what they see, reading their every word. But even if observation isn't done on the job, admins can come in after hours and start digging.
Browser caches retain images that users have amassed.
Not as many realize that deleting from the Sent directory merely shuffles the message into the Trash directory, where it is still readily available for recall. Moreover, messages, both incoming and outgoing, can be saved on a network's proxy server, regardless of how thorough of a deleting job a user does on his own machine. In the midst of all this scrutiny, you may really feel the omni-present gaze of Big Brother upon you. As we'll see in next month's follow-up article, the people you trust to protect your privacy may actually stab you in the back. Keep watching to find out what you can do to protect yourself and those around you.