[CA] Found out that work was monitoring my home computer when they fired me for watching porn on my own time at home - is this legal?
I use my laptop for both personal use and work. It is my laptop, I purchased it, and I owned it before starting this job.
In order to use it for work, they installed a bunch of work-related software on it. Apparently some of that software was monitoring my activity, because today I was fired for watching porn on the laptop. I have never watched porn on company time or in a company building, only on my own time at home.
First, is it legal for them to be monitoring my personal computer like this?
Second, is it legal for them to fire me for my actions off work in my own home? Thank you.
TenaciousFeces on November 7th, 2018 at 16:25 UTC »
My company offers a phone application to access company email, but the fine print is that through that app they can monitor your activity and can clear your entire phone memory remotely (it makes sense that if you are fired they don't want you to have their data).
I declined installing their software and now only do work from devices dedicated for work.
Coulrophiliac444 on November 7th, 2018 at 15:46 UTC »
And here I was thinking OP's dick may have accidentally disabled the company firewall because the keyboard fell...
joshi38 on November 7th, 2018 at 14:18 UTC »
Worth noting, most mainstream porn sites are fairly safe. Certainly Pornhub and those in that network are super safe. I'm not going to page her, but I'm sure I've seen Katie from Pornhub comment on this before.