On Company Equipment, Don't Expect Privacy
Most people are getting very comfortable with technology. Non-typers have evolved into typers. Non-writers have learned to get by. People once not inclined to make telephone calls now make them without blinking. Using technology, though, may put them at risk either on or off the job site.
Hope Haslam, director of Consulting Services at Epiq Systems Inc., headquartered in Kansas City, Kan., works in the New York City-based eDiscovery Group, which advises corporate and legal clients about large volumes of stored electronic data that might become part of a lawsuit, if it hasn't already.
"We identify relevant data," she says, (which suggests that) "the trend to mix work and life might well be colliding on technology at work and at home or on the road. If someone is on a PDA or laptop or personal machines at home, we can advise the corporation to go out and collect that data. This can be frightening to employees, because there could be some very personal information there."
