Ethics

[docskurlock.livejournal.com]

Ok, so the other day, the owner of the company asks me to put some software on the server (his words) that would allow him to view what everyone in the company was doing. He claimed that he paid 900 bucks for some software that my predecessor had used, and it showed every page on every system every 5 seconds. He wanted to view websites, passwords, you name it.

My question to all of you is this:
Would you do this and why?

Would you have a problem if you were forced to do this?

Don't get me wrong, I know he's the big boss and he can probably find out more information about somenone, but wanting to see their passwords on their bank accounts or what have you, I mean, that's stretching it, in my opinion.

Comments

[docskurlock.livejournal.com]

Most people spend a fairly large amount of time on the internet, mainly doing price research from other auction companies and other auction sites. It's not hard to browse to your bank account, check if something went through and then keep going. He wants to be able to view ALL data, and that bothers me.

[usekh.livejournal.com]

Not quite my question though. If IT policy forbids you using it for personal reasons such as banking etc then I would say fair enough if he puts in something like that.

It becomes more of an ethical issue however if it does allow you to bank etc.

Also do the end users know he is putting this in?

[docskurlock.livejournal.com]

Like I said, I write the policy and there is no policy against it.

No, they do not and that is what bothers me.

[usekh.livejournal.com]

If there is no policy against using it for personal reasons AND they don't know. Yeah I would say it is unethical

[docskurlock.livejournal.com]

What would you recommend?