RE: [SQU] The law and proxies?

Hi Dean,
firstly, IANAL...

Australia does have a Privacy Act and you should contact your lawyer for
advice on this. When I was last administering a moderate sized cache
with forced authentication, I simply told the users that the username
was needed to ensure accurate billing and that was we didn't look
through the logs on a daily basis. We then held the logs as securly as
we could, and only released them on request from upper management...

Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: Dean Grubb [mailto:grubbda@tafe.tas.edu.au]
Sent: Monday, 20 November 2000 3:07 PM
To: squid-users@ircache.net
Subject: [SQU] The law and proxies?

Hi,

We've always had monitoring and reporting packages running for our
proxies. Pwebstats for general proxy info and usage, and sqmgrlog for
logging against IP/Username.

I've just turned on Authentication for our main proxy. (Netware 5 LDAP)

We have an Internet Usage policy within our organisation, stating that
we do monitor users and their usage. But since I've enabled proxy
authentication some people feel this is a violation of there privacy and
have started to rant and rave about big brother, unions etc.

So I was wondering what experience other squid cache administrators have
had with this.

Is there a law/bill that say's we have the right to monitor the users on
our LAN/WAN?

Dean Grubb
Customer Support Officer
TAFE Tasmania

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