Can a company tap your work phone to earsdrop w/o your knowledge?

[JEDI]

...but can the company record your conversations on the work phone on your desk w/o your permission?

 

[cavemanmoron]

Yeah🙁

 

[Lord Evermore]

They can stand over you and make you turn on speakerphone if they want. 🙂 Heck, they could turn the speakerphone on in the breakroom while tapped into your call at your desk. It's their phone and phone service. You have no right to expectation of privacy in the workplace. (Except the restroom of course. And I think maybe that only applies within the stalls themselves.) They can monitor all your Internet traffic too, no matter what you connect to or who you communicate with (if they happen to record a plaintext password you send, too bad). They can stick a camera at your desk recording everything you do, or hide one doing the same thing.

And if you think you should have been caught by now, they're probably writing it all down as evidence to back up nailing you for whatever major thing you may one day do.

 

[Hossenfeffer]

Ok, I'm curious as hell to know why the question even came up...

 

[RossMAN]

Yes.

You're using THEIR resources and most likely on THEIR time.

If you want PRIVACY. Go outside and use YOUR cell phone.

 

[MedicBob]

...and depending on what state you are in only 1 of the parties on the phone has to know it is recorded.

 

[Ulfwald]

If they are monitoring your phone, they have to disclose it. but YES they can and will.

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Yes.

You're using THEIR resources and most likely on THEIR time.

If you want PRIVACY. Go outside and use YOUR cell phone.

Make sure you're off of their property, though.

 

[DanDrop]

Dude it isn't 'EARSDROP', it's EAVESDROP.

That aside, i think they can monitor company phones.