Xref: utzoo comp.admin.policy:375 comp.unix.admin:2171 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: E-mail Privacy Message-ID: <1991Jun9.073804.1969@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 9 Jun 91 07:38:04 GMT References: <1991May26.004112.15971@ms.uky.edu> <1991Jun05.142444.839@heitis1.uucp> <1991Jun8.034713.11224@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 35 otto@fsu1.cc.fsu.edu writes: news@heitis1.uucp (News Administrator) writes... >> My wife worked for the Census Bureau. Each day >> before she left work, for lunch, to smoke a >> cigarette, whatever, she had to open her purse to >> be searched, and empty her pockets. > That makes sense. The Census Bureau doesn' know > from privacy. Quite the opposite. Up until last year, when the temptation to implement Big Brother methods apparently overcame good sense, the Census Bureau has been utterly fanatic about protecting the privacy of its RECORDS, not employees, since any hint of scandal would mean no more freely furnished Census Data about all the snoopy questions that they ask with a promise that the answers will remain anonymous. Checking to be sure no one was violating that privacy just made good sense. My brother used to work in a factory that made gold college rings (Jostins); you haven't come close to seeing invasions of privacy until you see the methods employed to keep even the tiniest scrap of gold from adhering to a departing employee even by accident. When you work in a place like that, the inspections are part of the job, and should be factored into the salary. Kent, the man from xanth.