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Old Nov 5, 2007 | 8:10 am
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Originally Posted by talksalot
yes, I am interested in the CAN.

I am most concerned with this:
If I am sitting at home on the home computer (or on work laptop that is provided by a client, but not online to their system) and I am looking at competitors' stock quotes or monster.com, or doing other research for marketing purpooses, should I assume THEY (client) can see what I am doing.
In the US, if they provided the hardware in the "work laptop that is probided by a client, but not online to their system" they most certainly CAN (in both a legal and technical sense) see that you did it.

As has been mentioned, the ECPA of '86 is usually controlling in these situations.

The safest course of action is never to do anything on a work computer you don't want work to know about at some point.
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