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The headlines are pretty alarming: “WARNING: Your boss can now read EVERY Facebook and WhatsApp message you send at WORK,” the Daily Express says, using LOTS of CAPITALS.
“Your boss can now read your personal email, Facebook and WhatsApp messages,” says the Mirror. The Daily Mail says “Britons have been warned not to use Facebook, Twitter, Google Chat or other messaging platforms at work”
So what’s happened to spark the alarm — and are they right that we should be worried? Says Buzzfeeds.
If you have access to the internet from a work computer, most major employers — including BuzzFeed — will stipulate in contracts or employee handbooks what you’re allowed to do on the internet at work, and in almost all cases, will specifically tell you that they’re entitled to monitor what you’re doing.
It’s worth checking your contract, here: even if you don’t think it’s in there, it probably is, and it’s often blunt: “employees should have no expectation of privacy” on work systems is a fairly standard phrase on both sides of the Atlantic.
But is my boss reading my WhatsApp, though?
Probably not. While monitoring what you do on your work PC or Mac is quite straightforward, it’s a lot less simple for employers to monitor what you’re doing on your mobile phone.
If you’ve got a personal mobile (rather than a company phone), it’s impossible for your boss to see your WhatsApp messages — even if you’re using the company WiFi to send them. This is because WhatsApp, like Facebook Messenger, iMessage, and other services now use strong end-to-end encryption.
If you’ve got a sophisticated employer, there’s a chance they’ll be able to see you’ve used a messaging service on work time through work internet — but they won’t be able to see the actual messages. Encryption is great.
The article is from buzzfeed