{"id":1294,"date":"2007-11-16T11:48:37","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T17:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/11\/corporate-spying-at-boeing\/"},"modified":"2007-11-16T10:56:19","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T16:56:19","slug":"corporate-spying-at-boeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/11\/corporate-spying-at-boeing\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Spying At Boeing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I suspect Boeing will be in damage control mode on this Seattle Post-Intelligencer article<\/a>:<\/p>\n

One such team, dubbed “enterprise” investigators, has permission to read the private e-mails of employees, follow them and collect video footage or photos of them. Investigators can also secretly watch employee computer screens in real time and reproduce every keystroke a worker makes, the Seattle P-I has learned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I have read much about how Gen Y craves transparency in all things.\u00a0 I can’t imagine the impact an article like this could have on their recruiting efforts.\u00a0 Whether the story is true or not, the impact will still be felt.<\/p>\n
Recently, a Boeing investigator told a Puget Sound-area employee that he was followed off company property to a lunch spot, that investigators had footage of him “coming and going” and that investigators had accessed his personal Gmail account.<\/p>\n
The primary reason for the 2007 investigation, the employee said, was Boeing’s suspicion that he had spoken with a member of the media. The employee learned the details of the investigation during a three-hour meeting, in which investigators laid out some of their findings. He has since been fired.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Boeing was a customer of mine in a previous position and I have been out to Everett, WA when it was the official headquarters for the company.\u00a0 Obviously, Boeing has highly-classified government projects, but this approach to security appears to be over-the-top.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the privacy laws in this area are somewhat vague according to the article:<\/p>\n
So when does privacy begin? When an employee steps across the threshold into his or her own home, experts say.<\/p>\n
“The only thing your boss can’t do is listen to personal telephone calls; that’s covered by wiretapping laws,” said Lewis Maltby, president of the National Workrights Institute in Princeton, N.J.<\/p>\n
…<\/p>\n
However, “it’s a tricky area because there aren’t a lot of legal protections in Washington and in most states where we have employment-at-will. There are some privacy rights of employees, but they are limited relative to the employer.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The reporter references the exact topic that went through my mind when I saw the headline – the HP scandal from last year.\u00a0 I believe as we continue into this Information Age, more of these types of stories are going to appear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I suspect Boeing will be in damage control mode on this Seattle Post-Intelligencer article: One such team, dubbed “enterprise” investigators, has permission to read the private e-mails of employees, follow them and collect video footage or photos of them. Investigators can also secretly watch employee computer screens in real time and reproduce every keystroke a worker makes, the Seattle P-I has learned. I have read much about how Gen Y craves transparency in all things.\u00a0 I can’t imagine the impact an article like this could have on their recruiting efforts.\u00a0 Whether the story is true or not, the impact will still be felt. Recently, a Boeing investigator told a Puget… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[60,61,62,59],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-team-management","tag-boeing","tag-investigation","tag-privacy","tag-spying"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-kS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":577,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/the-drop-trouser-sales-move\/","url_meta":{"origin":1294,"position":0},"title":"The “Drop Trouser” Sales Move","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"January 15, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"First off, I have an interest in the Boeing vs. Airbus rivalry. 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