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Originally Posted by Stinsonddog
I am curious about what can be seen on BES and what are privacy rights of those of us on BES. I am going to make a basic assumption for this thread. You as an individual were asked by your firm to buy the BB and you use BIS also. Debate the necessity of that assumption if you like. The purpose is to establish some baseline rights in the BB and it's operation.
At that point you connect to a BES. What can a BES see? Texting, Phone Logs, BB Messenger Conversations, etc? So if anyone can provide the full list that would be great, Jibi?
So then what do you think your privacy rights are?
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In a BES 4 / BB 4.x environment, if you want to see what the BES "sees", wipe the device and then do an Enterprise Activation and see what comes back, or more importantly what DOESN'T come back. What you DO get back:
- Phone Logs
- Address Book
- Calendar
- Notes
- Tasks
- Bookmarks
- Most Settings
What you do NOT get back:
- Old email (including BIS email)
- Pictures
- BlackBerry Messenger contacts
That is far from a complete list.
Frankly, I think it's up to the BES provider (company) to clearly define what is allowed and what's considered off limits for them. If they don't explicitly say that your BIS email is subject to their scrutiny, it should be off limits.
OR, to look at it another way, the provider of BES services has the ability to control and lock down any and all operations of the device through IT Policy. If they don't want you using BIS for whatever reason, that's their prerogative, but if they allow it and don't say that it's subject to their review, it's off limits to them.
In the long run, it would be up to the courts.
If someone got fired because evidence of two employees having an affair which was against firm policy was found in their BIS email by the company and they were fired for it, I'd GUESS they'd have a pretty good case against the company for invasion of privacy if the company never said they would be looking at it.
On the other hand if evidence of insider information being passed through BIS email were found, I don't think the SEC would care where the info came from, and the participants would probably have a lousy invasion of privacy defense!
All that said, the best PRACTICE for ALL users is to never do anything on company provided computers, devices, or services they don't want the company to know about! At the end of the day one can whine all they want about invasion of privacy, but it does little good when you're out of a job and your employment records are tarnished.