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Question 

Posted Tuesday 27th May 2008 12:32 GMT

Stop

Spying on Directors and Senior Execs eh?

So who exactly is doing the spying, if not the Directors and Senior Execs or are there Senior Directors and Super Execs or maybe Deutsche Telecom the name of the fellow doing the spying.

What's it to be?

Hang on 

Posted Tuesday 27th May 2008 12:48 GMT

"the company gave executives false information" ?!?

Man I wouldn't want to be the one having taken THAT decision.

Doing an HP 

Posted Tuesday 27th May 2008 13:42 GMT

Joke

Is that like doing a Barrymore. ?

Re: giving executives false information. 

Posted Tuesday 27th May 2008 14:09 GMT

Gates Horns

That'll be business as usual then. When was the last time anyone gave the plain, unvarnished truth to board-level execs rather than a carefully spun version, based loosely on the truth, but far closer to what everyone thought that they wanted to hear?

Bill, for the "economical with the truth" connection.

German Privacy Laws 

Posted Wednesday 28th May 2008 12:11 GMT

It looks like they were trying to skirt the laws themselves by not listening to the conversations. If an employee has a company phone they are generally required to sign a privacy waiver for the company to be able to receive the bill from the carrier since the company is not the party that is using the phone. If such a waiver is in place, then the current security director might not have much to argue about for internal...but external parties...can you say Stasi-esque? The main reason why Privacy Laws are so clear (and should be) are the abuses in the former East including jars containing personal items for dog scent tracking. Total surveillence measures are not viewed favorably as humans have a right to the dignity of not being constantly watched...especially in the workplace. Traffic surveillance methods that obfuscate the device are not permitted despite being technically feasible.

Caveat: If there is suspicion that something illicit is actually going on, then a court order bypasses all right to privacy retroactively if needed.

Would need to read more about it, and I am sure we will. The Lidl thing caused quite a stink...I am wondering how this is going to shake out.