🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Dec14.133030.804@ualr.edu>, lindstrom@acs.harding.edu
writes: 
|> As for the phone, it is also for business. ...  if
|> someone is making personal long distance calls, that's taking money
|> from our already small budget and I want to know.

The analogy with computer use rights would be if concern for
enforcement extended to monitoring employee phone calls and turning
over any suspicious information to the police.  Certainly this has
been done in some places, and I imagine sometimes this has raised
civil rights issues that go beyond the ownership of the telephone.

|> Now I'm not for a police state, ...

It's worth considering if there will be much non-monitored space for
us in the future.  If we commit most of our lives to computer
equipment and communication systems owned by others, and they are
constantly keeping tabs on us to make sure we use their equipment only
for legal, moral, and ethical purposes, then we may end up living in
some sort of police state, even though no one really wanted to.  Maybe
not; but I think that's the specter that haunts some of the objections
to monitoring.