Vericept company overview and operations

Vericept Company: Internet Privacy

In today's hyper-connected world, employees are more easily able to access their work Internet accounts from home -- and to use the Internet at work for personal use. In an effort to make employees more productive, modern enterprises have resorted to careful monitoring of employee network traffic. Employers usually notify employees that employee website surfing patterns will be carefully supervised and their emails will be carefully screened. An entire industry, as manifested in the Vericept Company has arisen with the design of monitoring employees and protecting the privacy of customers, given the fragility of privacy and the boundaries of what is considered the 'workplace' in today's online world.

Often, it is assumed that so long as employees are notified beforehand, everything is 'fair game' regarding what employees post at work, and how they surf the web. But the line becomes more blurry when employees use computers at home to connect to both work and personal sites. So long as the computer is not provided by the worker's place of employment, surely this information should remain private? Unless, of course, employees are using knowledge they have gained from the workplace to create their own business and engage in intellectual property 'theft.' But then, where do employee rights begin? Even lesson plans and lectures created by teachers and professors posted online have become targets of employers ownership claims, who claim that they 'own' the teacher's work, given that it would not exist without the support of the institution and its staff. While this may seem absurd, on the other hand, careless employees, if not monitored, could actually expose private customer data in a dangerous fashion -- an employee who accesses his work account on his computer through a wireless network in a public place could be hacked, and cause grief to a customer as well as himself.