Here's a thought, which links rather neatly to your post on being an employee : What rights have you as an employee, when your company is running spyware in the workplace? By this I mean keyloggers, retention of email, remote control applications etc? Shouldn't you, as an employee, have a right to see what they are logging? For example, suppose you log into your bank account via your work internet connection, because you've had a last-minute call about something and need to transfer some money. This means your company now has a copy of your passwords, and someone could then use that password. What rights would you have in this case?