#privacy

I am just worried, Is Cisco Tracking on what websites, I am visiting or what am I looking at on Google Chrome ? since news came come out Meta Tracking its employees.

Are remote folks forced to be on camera for full length of shift???
Is camera recording AFTER shift is over?
Is the company phone actively streaming everything?
Anyone who can help answer this?

Do NOT go to the onsite Wellness centers for Annuals or any checkups.. if you do your health profile is exposed to the employer and will impact impact your employment if it is gets to be a high risk by age.

Go to your own doctor outside..

Only asking people who know the answer - if I add this app to my I-phone can the company now track my location at all times? Can it now see If I am spending any time during the day talking on my cell phone?

Go to sparq and go under career and learning on the right hand side.
Select “request feedback from colleagues.”
You can see who is on leave of absence paid and unpaid and everything. Wow. Good going that HR in India sharing all the personal details of people smh.

Do huddle rooms have cameras, and if so, do they also record audio?

Yesterday, my computer started lagging and freezing. I use a high performance MacBook Pro, so this was odd. I tried to restart, but I was stopped by a pop-up that said "NexThink" software was being installed and restarting would cause data loss and performance issues. The popup disappeared in less than a second and my computer restarted.

Sure enough, when I checked my task manager logs, a handful of processes from "NexThink" were running, which I'd never seen on my machine before.

I was also one of the Mac users whose in-office time wasn't accounted for in the first quarter. So, while I'm hoping this is a fix to that issue, it seems like it's mostly just employee monitoring software.

What is the deal with location tracking? Who tracks it? Will MyWork and people with medical accommodations get tracked in addition to others for Workplace Excellence?

Stop looking at us. Let us patrol.

Heard Privacy moving to Compliance. Anyone else hear anything?

https://privacy.ca.gov/drop/

California residents can now use the Delete Request and Opt-Out Platform (DROP) to request the deletion of their personal information from over 500 registered data brokers with a single submission. Launched on January 1, 2026, the free tool is operated by the California Privacy Protection Agency and allows users to verify their residency and submit a request to stop brokers from collecting, selling, or sharing their data.

While requests can be submitted immediately, data brokers are not required to begin processing these deletion requests until August 1, 2026. Once processing begins, brokers must delete the specified information within 90 days and are required to check for new requests every 45 days thereafter.

Eligibility: You must be a California resident to use the platform.

Verification: Users verify their identity through the California Identity Gateway or Login.gov.

Exceptions: Brokers are not required to delete publicly available information (e.g., real estate records) or first-party data collected directly from customers.
Enforcement: Failure to comply with deletion requests can result in daily fines, with independent audits starting in January 2028.

Website: The platform is available at privacy.ca.gov/drop/.

Please start protecting your privacy!!

Since T states in their mandatory privacy courses that they comply with California laws, they may want to check out some of these.

State-Specific Protections (Example: California)

California provides some of the strongest protections through the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA):
employeesfirstlaborlaw.com
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Disclosure: Employers must disclose what data they collect and how it is used.

Right to Access: Employees may have the right to access and correct the data collected about them.

Retaliation: Employers are prohibited from retaliating against employees who exercise their privacy rights

The IT utility that took screenshots of your browser has been removed.

local10.com/news/local/2026/03/06/hialeah-verizon-store-manager-caught-airdropping-himself-womans-s-x-video-police

Verizon store manager caught AirDropping himself woman’s s-x videos, police say: HIALEAH, Fla. — A woman mulling a switch from AT&T to Verizon ended up the victim of an intimate crime after visiting the latter’s retailer in Hialeah on Thursday afternoon, according to police.

Investigators said Noel Guerra Vaquer, the manager of the Verizon store at 7925 Hialeah Gardens Blvd., AirDropped videos of the woman having s-x with her partner from her iPhone to his personal phone under the guise of “assisting with the process of setting up potential service.”

Police said Guerra, 35, of Hialeah Gardens, had claimed he needed to look at her AT&T bill as she sought a quote at around 3:45 p.m.

A Hialeah Police Department arrest report states that the woman “realized that something was wrong after leaving the store when she observed a notification on her phone indicating that an AirDrop transfer had been successfully completed,“ listing the recipient as “Noel.”

Police said “the notification included a thumbnail image showing explicit content of herself.”

Antropic said the dod couldn’t use their systems to spy on US citizens. OpenAI picked up the dod contract.
So how do US TikTok users feel about their data now on Oracle servers now?
How long before AI is spying on employees?

Is it against the law to be given your annual review via video to me and I had to sit in the middle of a room with other workers around me who heard the entire thing? I was not given the opportunity for any privacy at all. Everyone heard the entire review. It was embarrassing.

@b2+1kjbbze82 Makes a great point. These creeps are putting our pictures in Gemini, putting in our personal and work information and god knows what else. This needs to stop!!

Walk into any corporate office, and you’ll hear the same anxious conversation: Will AI eliminate white-collar jobs?

The optimists insist that new jobs will emerge to replace the ones we lose—after all, it has happened in previous tech revolutions. Pragmatists argue the workforce will simply become more productive with artificial intelligence, creating more value with minimal job cuts. And the pessimists fear entry-level knowledge workers will become obsolete altogether.

But this debate misses a crucial dynamic. Right now, workers are potentially training AI how to make them obsolete. And they often don’t realize it.

The kind of AI used by companies, called an enterprise AI system, can capture everything you do at work and use that information to train itself. These systems can record your interactions within the platform—the prompts you write, the documents you create, the queries you run.

In other words, the company can potentially track—and claim ownership of—every keystroke you make within the system, every idea you document there, every tool you build using that platform. It can identify what approaches worked best, what email language got responses and how you approached those clients. And all that knowledge can become part of the company AI, so it may eventually know, down to increasingly fine details, how you do your job.

Then comes the dangerous part for employees: The AI can pass that information along to anybody else who does your job, or in some cases just do the job itself. Over time, you could become a lot less valuable to your employer—and a lot more replaceable.

This dynamic may fundamentally change the relationship between employer and employee. The stakes are so high and so urgent that both sides are rushing to position (or protect) themselves. Executives are rapidly implementing enterprise AI systems, seeking productivity gains and competitive advantage—and they often aren’t disclosing the implications for job security and privacy. Meanwhile, at least some employees are secretly adopting personal AI tools, sometimes violating corporate policies, so that their employers can’t capture everything they know and do.
Capturing the essence

To understand what’s coming, you need to understand what enterprise AI systems actually are. These are different from the interfaces you use at home. Enterprise AI systems are platforms that integrate directly into corporate workflows—think of Microsoft Copilot embedded in Word, Excel and Outlook, or Salesforce’s Einstein AI woven into customer-relationship management. These systems sit inside the tools where you already work. And they can potentially capture much of your work within the platform, learning from many interactions, and embedding that knowledge into company-owned infrastructure.

What once lived only in employees’ heads, built through years of experience and hard-won expertise, is increasingly being institutionalized in real time. When you leave, at least some of your knowledge stays behind, embedded in systems that will be used by the AI and by your replacement (if a replacement is needed at all).

Imagine that you’re a senior software engineer debugging a system crash. You run a bunch of tests to figure out the problem, and when you discover the solution isn’t in the documentation, you develop a novel workaround. You share the solution with the company, obviously, but the expertise and techniques that you brought to the problem were all yours, in a fundamental way. You figured out the workaround because of what you know and how you work.
That is the way things used to be, anyway. When you do your work through enterprise AI, though, the system doesn’t just record your solution. It can capture your problem-solving approach: which questions you asked first, how you refined the search when initial attempts failed, potentially even the logical steps that led you from symptom to cause. The next time junior engineers face a similar crash, the system may be able to guide them through elements of the methodology you used.

You haven’t lost your expertise. But now the employer also has access to key aspects of that expertise, in a form it controls and can deploy to other employees without you. It has a partial blueprint for how you think, and some of the knowledge that once made you indispensable is now a reproducible company asset.
Making it personal

These revolutionary changes seem to put workers in a tight spot. But I believe employees have an alternative—one that isn’t easy, but could help move the power dynamic back in their favor. Specifically: Employees should consider avoiding their company AI systems when possible and use personal AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot or dozens of others.

These tools operate on completely different terms than enterprise AI. You access them directly. You own your prompts, your workflows, your customizations. The knowledge you create stays with you. Most critically, when you walk out the door, your AI-enhanced capabilities walk with you.

Maybe you’re required to use your company’s enterprise AI for client work. But all the strategic thinking you do before engaging with clients? Develop that using personal AI tools.

I spoke with a regional vice president at an energy company who does exactly that: He uses his firm’s enterprise system for required compliance and documentation, but develops new analytical approaches and tests complex decisions in personal AI tools. The novel insights stay his.
What can be done?

Using personal AI tools is just the first step employees should take, however. To really change the power dynamic, they can act on other fronts.

• Negotiate upfront. When joining a company, people should treat access to AI tools like intellectual-property ownership. Most employment agreements cover IP created on the job, but employees should dig further into a company’s policies before signing on: What gets captured through enterprise AI? How long is that data retained? Can you use personal AI tools for skill development? Can you request deletion of your contributions if you leave?

Most companies haven’t thought through these questions yet, which means there is room to establish reasonable boundaries before you’re locked in.

• Support collective action. Individual opt-out of AI is often impossible, so unions and professional associations need to pay attention. With collective bargaining, workers could demand transparency about the use of enterprise AI and demand fair compensation for the knowledge it gathers. Without collective power, individual employees will keep clicking “accept” on agreements that restructure their jobs simply because they have no alternative.

Concerted employee action may start to change the AI calculus. Employers may find that enterprise AI systems do capture knowledge, but at a steep cost: They may drive away the most talented employees, ones who realize they can build more valuable, portable capabilities with personal tools.

AI is breaking the traditional model of employment in real time faster than anyone realizes. The companies and employees who understand these dynamics will position themselves to capture AI’s benefits. Those who don’t may find themselves on the losing side of the biggest workplace shift in a generation.

Both, Senators J Kennedy and Hawley - calling out VZ for NOT protecting the privacy of customers and handing over data to specific GOP officials with NO question whatsoever. HAtchet man being called out by obe of the senators:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUnxKc_EQTw/?igsh=M2xha3I2MDl0Nnlw

They should has told the senator that Dan was too busy drinking coffee and takkng selfies for his said: “baby”

They have changed the presence report again starting February. Any insights into what they are tracking and reporting that is new. I reached out to my supervisor, but he did not have details on the changes.

Anyone in HR/IT/security know if they’re tracking time spent in office or if badging in is enough?

When is the next VoiceEX survey? Folks be careful. They say the comments are anonymous but being that we are assigned a PIN number, common sense tells you that you can be identified by your unique pin. If they really want to know about a particular comment someone made on the survey, they can easily obtain it. My guess is they will avoid all questions related to work/life balance. They already know what they’ve done and how the majority feels. That’s something that can’t be denied.

I will go first.
What is the name of the company invading the privacy of former employees and stealing intellectual property from them?
If your answer is correct then you will hear popping sounds inside your house.

For employees who have an ID badge with a chip, does WF use it to track their location?

This post is for current L3 Harris employees. Please share experiences with job reductions or furloughs within L3 Harris technologies. Please include your location and dates if possible without revealing your identity or any information that might expose yourself. Your privacy should be protected. If you are not part of L3 harris, there is no reason to be posting here.

Anyone here ever dealt with the stunt where leadership tells people to “just text me on your personal phone” so nothing hits the company servers? A lawyer friend spelled it out: that move doesn’t protect the company, it protects them from you. Once it’s on your device, you’re the one holding the bag. They can step back, say “we never authorized that,” and suddenly it’s your problem.

If it’s such a huge legal risk to the employee, why don’t companies ever mention that part? Or is that the point?

Do they spy on your work machine?

What is the goal besides layoffs? Any insights?

https://www.bgr.com/2010698/how-microsoft-teams-spying-on-you-live-location/

In this thread we talk about how Corpo is spying on you. I'll start:

• FortiClient
• SentinelOne
• SentinelOne plugin for browsers
• ZScaler (even when it's Off) - fun fact, this website is banned!
• LinkedIn "compliance" - yes, they're going through the information on the LinkedIn profiles - both FTE and Contractors

Think your digital fingerprint is not all over this. Don’t embarrass your family’s

Anyone hearing a rumor about moving to track length of time laptop is connected on-premises to a USB network (not VPN)? Been hearing this in unrelated areas over the last few weeks, but it seems far too ‘big brother’. I know they can already track every moment on it, but I can’t imagine they’ll micro-manage this much to ensure RTO compliance to the point of tracking length of time on network. Anyone know more about this to confirm if it’s true?

I sent several legitimate personal documents to my own email today and noticed something in my Mac Finder under “locations” I’ve never seen before.

Under iCloud Drive and OneDrive, there was a network icon titled “my first name” in all lowercase

Spooky

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-teams/microsoft-teams-is-about-to-become-your-boss-lapdog

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/10/22/microsoft-teams-starts-telling-your-company-if-youre-not-at-work/

For whatever reason I think they are tracking us? What does this forum think?

They can see your email address in the metadata. Saw the manager's version of the job aid. Probably not a huge shocker.

What's up with the recruiters asking for a passport in an interview?