Big Brother is watching us

[chicken]

Apparently if you say something, even as a joke, that could be construed in a certain way, in your LiveJournal, the Secret Service could show up on your doorstep. This is very much not funny, and very scary.

Comments

[the-automatik.livejournal.com]

I've been suspicious of this type of thing for quite a while. I am very careful about what I say about politicos but I will be even more so now.

I know of people who post all sorts of drug-related stories on their LJs. While I'm sure that the government has more pressing issues to worry about than who's eating pot brownies these days, it does go to show that you are being watched.

Don't even get me started on the people who got fired from their jobs because their managers and co-workers read their non-work-related websites (in one instance by stealing a password and hacking in) and didn't like the content.

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

Don't even get me started on the people who got fired from their jobs because their managers and co-workers read their non-work-related websites (in one instance by stealing a password and hacking in) and didn't like the content.

And a lot of times the employee is so shaken by all this that they don't even retain an attorney to fight back (not to mention which they are financially unable to do so by that point).

[the-automatik.livejournal.com]

The rules are very grey in this area. If you tell your employees you have the right to snoop right off the bat, you have the upper hand. If you don't, they can probably sue you for invasion of privacy. But in the instance where the manager stole a password to sneak into the employee's file, the employee was basically complaining about his job and telling people not to look for work there.

Is that slander? Doubtful.