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Re: Corporate policy question - Personal Laptops
From: Ansgar Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:35:01 +0200
On 2008-09-11 Tom Yarrish wrote:
Needed some advice on a corporate policy issue. If an employee has a personal laptop in the office, and that employee is terminated in the process of a merger, can the company wipe the hard drive of the personal computer before it's returned to that employee? Here's the scenario: Our company is going through a merger, and through the rounds of "integration" of the two companies, employees that are let go from the IT department are escorted out of the building immediately, and not allowed to return. Their manager packs up their personal affects and ships it to them. In one case, the employee had some personal laptops in their office, and wants them back (obviously). Are we allowed to wipe the hard drive of that personal laptop before giving it back to the employee?
Without the employee's agreement: no. Since it's not company property the company can't even touch it. That's one of the reasons why you usually don't allow private computers in the office. Regards Ansgar Wiechers -- "All vulnerabilities deserve a public fear period prior to patches becoming available." --Jason Coombs on Bugtraq
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