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@loopback0 said in Work proxy:
@remi said in Work proxy:
I wonder if something could be made on the grounds that the company is accessing information that should be private (between me and the website I'm contacting)
On a work computer, on work time?
Yes, and yes. I was careful to make clear it depends on local law, because, well, of course it does. In France, it has been ruled (more than once, so there is a clear body of jurisprudence) that private information is, well, private, even if accessed through means that are controlled by someone else (your employer). This has been ruled time and again for things like personal correspondance (snail mail or email) or phone, which is why I wondered how internet browsing would fit or not in that framework.
There should be no expectation that a company allows personal usage of their resources on their time. If they allow it, it's a bonus.
That one is a slightly different thing (again, in French law at least). You're right that there is no expectation that your employer should allow personal usage of their resources. However if they do, then there is an automatic right to privacy. Your employer can forbid you to make personal phone calls using your office phone (*), but if they allow it, they have no rights to snoop on you when you do so (and again, there are regularly employment tribunal cases that center around this, so it's been validated by judges many times).
(*) although in that specific case it might be that they cannot even prevent you from making "reasonable" use of it, e.g. they couldn't fire you for calling your children's school in an emergency or other similar thing, but I'm not sure of that -- and it doesn't really matter to the rest of my point, so let's forget about this.
