{"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":"<p>I suspect Boeing will be in damage control mode on this <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/business\/339881_boeingsurveillance16.html\">Seattle Post-Intelligencer article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One such team, dubbed &#8220;enterprise&#8221; 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<p>I have read much about how Gen Y craves transparency in all things.\u00a0 I can&#8217;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<blockquote><p>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 &#8220;coming and going&#8221; and that investigators had accessed his personal Gmail account.<\/p>\n<p>The primary reason for the 2007 investigation, the employee said, was Boeing&#8217;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<p>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<p>Unfortunately, the privacy laws in this area are somewhat vague according to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So when does privacy begin? When an employee steps across the threshold into his or her own home, experts say.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only thing your boss can&#8217;t do is listen to personal telephone calls; that&#8217;s covered by wiretapping laws,&#8221; said Lewis Maltby, president of the National Workrights Institute in Princeton, N.J.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>However, &#8220;it&#8217;s a tricky area because there aren&#8217;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.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The reporter references the exact topic that went through my mind when I saw the headline &#8211; 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":"<p>I suspect Boeing will be in damage control mode on this Seattle Post-Intelligencer article: One such team, dubbed &#8220;enterprise&#8221; 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&#8217;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&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/11\/corporate-spying-at-boeing\/\">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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[60,61,62,59],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-kS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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