Employee Surveillance Software

Privacy / Security
#1

This doesn’t bode well for those who work from home.

But here’s my question: suppose you’re working from home, but are using Linux. Would you be affected by the software on the list. (Supposing it’s possible to do the work on a linux machine).

I don’t know yet how this affects Europeans.
But i’ve read that in the Netherlands, the army was gathering intelligence (on/about?) it’s citizens and handing out the information to interrested parties. Who needs software? Defense will cover that. :face_vomiting:
Source:https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2020/11/16/willen-we-dat-defensie-alles-weet-a4020275#/next/2020/11/17/#108 (It’s in Dutch, i don’t know if there’s an english version available).

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201: Interview with Tutanota Plus $6 Billion IPO for SUSE?
#2

Funnily enough I cannot open this link, because I’m working from home on Intel’s VPN and the page is blocked there.

But I don’t see why similar software couldn’t work under Linux.

#3

This is so dumb to me. Your employees are going to do their jobs. You have no reason to spy on them. This is abusive. You can’t squeeze blood from a stone.

Not too far off ago, at least in the USA, this kind of thing would force workers to give an abusive business owner a hairy and life changing experience off the books. This experience would usually curb the abusive behavior.

Why go back to that old way of life?

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#4

This is very disturbing.

I’d love to see a follow-up article on how to detect such software…and a list of companies that employ such software.

Nothing good will ever come from this type of business practice.

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#5

This thread was featured and discussed in the Community Feedback section of Episode 201 of Destination Linux.

DL201 Discussion Thread:

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#6

Regarding the interview with Tutanota, this article could serve as a nice reminder that privacy is a must these days. The main thing here is that a US court ordered google to hand over e-mails regarding the case. I don’t know if google has to comply, but this can get very ugly indeed.

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#7

I’d be interested to know if the courts could compel Tutanota to release the identity of the user, or even to modify their servers in a way to intercept the encryption keys and/or then compel the user to release their emails in a similar situation.

#8

Good question. Seeing that Germany is part of the 14-eyes alliance, they could get confronted with this problem.

#9

I was asking myself the same question as Tutanota is one of the two email providers I’m interested in nowadays. Germany is also a prominent advocate for backdoors.

#10

I am still about to listen to the show but I know Tutanota was obliged or forced various times by German courts to compel. Though I have no details about it.

At least in one case from this year they refused to make a backdoor and in the end the decision was accepted by the courts. The article about that is in German.

#11

It seems microsoft is adding a few things to its software too…

#12

hahahahaha oh man. Microsoft suuuuuucks.

Another “productivity innovation” which mysteriously doesn’t work on management, only workers.

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