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Until you get asked by HR why you're breaking their policies by clearing history and why you're doing it. If it's a work device that's not yours, don't expect privacy. It's their property.
They don't need the computer to see everywhere you've gone. I've never heard of anyone getting in trouble for clearing their history, but lots of people who have had problems visiting questionable sites.
You underestimate just how dumb some corporate policies are lol.
When I turn on my pc I get a prompt saying "this computer is managed by your organization, expect no privacy"
Sadly this.
Any personal matters I may have attended to during work hours were done on a personal device, through a VPN, preferably borrowing some other WiFi signal than one run by any company I work for.
If its even more personal, just drop WiFi I don't control all together. Either use the phones data plan for 10 minutes, or tether it to a computer and do the same.
That's not how it works in civilized countries that provide worker's rights by law
I have a very hard time believing that lol. Doesn't matter what country, it's still the companies property, and the work you're doing in it is still considered their property. It's not a personal device. What a pretentious statement.
In Canada employees may have a limited expectation of privacy on work computers.
Quoting from this article, which references the same supreme court case as the above article:
Accidentally deleted my post lol, but the court case ultimately ruled for the company, and that these laws aren't very strong to begin with.
And the article you linked still suggests it's a bad idea to assume privacy.
This is more so to protect employees who are browsing facebook or something on a personal computer, that the employeer isn't then allowed to snoop on their private social media accounts. For work related stuff, the rule still applies that it's work property.
Unfortunately, words on paper frequently fail to prevent organizations, public of private, from doing things they are technically not allowed to do. See the security state apparatus of any of the nations around the world including the 5, 9 and 14 eyes, or any number of tech companies that claim and market privacy respective policies only for people to uncover later that what they pitch publicly diverges in spirit from what they do or what is in the actual terms of service.
Hopefully if people find their employer going outside the bounds of the contract they can catch it, catalog it and hold them to account. Accountability can often be tricky and costly though.
This is why unions and NGOs exist.
So... not the United States. France, maybe? Germany?
This, but it won't matter if you delete history. They know anyway if the want, and can enable logging it if they choose.