E-mail Privacy

[Kent Paul Dolan]

 otto at fsu1.cc.fsu.edu writes:
 news at 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.
<xanthian at Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian at well.sf.ca.us>