Monitoring Employee Skype Communication to Protect IP
The evolution of digital communication that allows instant messaging and face to face communications to solve business related tasks. However, numerous employees have embraced the technology of internet for personal gains. The emergence of Skype is complicating time spent on product work. Most employees do not understand that using a Skype account for instance brands the Skype with the company’s name and this ideally is highly potent of becoming a PR nightmare. In this case, a communication on Skype can be tapped and if harmful it is impossible to know given it is branded how enemies can capitalize on the company’s IP address branding for their own malicious use.
In modern social media Skype conversations, an appearance can go viral over the internet. Notably, once the conversation has taken place, it is impossible to reverse them. It is impossible to imagine containing an IP address branded Skype conversation getting viral on a controversial topic. Indeed, the entry of internet and explosion of information it is impossible to know whether information and conversations are secure. Skype conversations which have a company IP address which are careless dialogue can be taken as endorsements, exposure of classified company trade furtive (Guffey & Loewy, 2013). In the same case, IP addressed Skype conversations may be considered as disclosure of classified information which could be preferred trading or any other security breach of the law. As long as a Skype conversation has a hashtag of an IP address of company, it makes the company in question to be legally responsible for any implications of such conversations (Guffey & Loewy, 2013).
In conclusion, employers should monitor their employees in the use of Skype among other social networks at workplace. There are many legal consequences of an IP addressed Skype conversation. Finally, this is accompanied by PR consequences when a company is in controversy.