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The developer of an internet monitoring software has lost in an appeal filed by plaintiffs suing the company for invasion of privacy, according to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Awareness Technologies, creators of WebWatcher, had successfully filed to dismiss the lawsuit brought about by Javier Luis of Florida, but the higher court overturned that dismissal and said that Luis’ case against the software developer can move forward.
While this isn’t a victory for personal privacy, it should be making a few software developers nervous right now. The suit claims that WebWatcher violates several state and federal wire tapping laws, and that their advertising is purposely misleading. Rather than promoting their product as an added layer of cybersecurity, the company intentionally markets it as a way to spy on your spouse, your children, or even your employees.
And that’s where lawyers and privacy experts have weighed in. It’s one thing to monitor your company’s network for unlawful activity, such as downloading child pornography or stealing company data, but smart businesses will make it known to their employees that their activity is being monitored. If an employee is permitted to check his personal email at work or is able to communicate with someone outside the company, and they are not aware of products such as WebWatcher monitoring their communication in real-time, then their rights may very well have been violated.
On the home front, there are legal concerns that monitoring software like this can have serious consequences for individuals within the family. If parents are monitoring their son’s internet use behind his back, then withhold his college tuition after they discover he’s been visiting gay dating websites, that’s their right as parents. But is the company who produced the software that allowed them to intercept his private communications (especially if he has turned 18 before finishing school) and use that information to cause him financial harm, responsible?
Luis’ suit was brought about after he made an online friend, then that friend’s husband used WebWatcher to spy on their communications, something that he says is specifically promoted in the company’s advertising. Now that the appeals court has said their is sufficient reason for the lawsuit to move forward, it will remain to be seen how companies that create this type of spying software are held accountable for the fallout.
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Earlier credible reports had indicated that up to around 20%, or 14,400, jobs were to go, inciting controversy that the company may have leaked the news. Chuck Robbins, Cisco CEO, however described the leaked news of the lay-offs as both insulting and irresponsible.
The job cuts will begin next year as the company attempts to accelerate a major restructuring project shifting its focus onto other growth areas such as security, internet of things, collaboration and cloud services.
Cisco had previously cut jobs back in both 2014 and 2013 when the company let 6000, and 4,000 go, respectively. Cisco is one of only several high profile technology companies that has found itself struggling to attempt to adapt to the ever accelerating growth of cloud based services.
While Cisco is still considered to the last word when it comes to network hardware, it has seen demand for their products fall consistently over the last 5 years or so. The same is also true for other hardware manufacturers. IT equipment is generally lasting longer than previous generations as both people and business wait longer between upgrade cycles, as the advent of mobile applications and cloud based computing services increases. Margins in software services are also higher than hardware because they also bring an ‘evergreen’ model of recurring revenue, involve fewer people on the cost side, and also have far higher margins.
The upcoming job cuts announcement may not cover the whole story, as Cisco has allegedly already offered early retirement packages to an unspecified number of employees, perhaps in a bid to mask difficulties being faced by the business.
Cisco, declared it had more than 70,000 employees as of April this year.
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