Registered: Feb 2001
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Posts: 23

I am not sure if this topic has been explored elsewhere or at another time, so I thought it was worth bringing to the surface.
It is common that anything you do on a computer at work is the property of the company you are working for. So if you connect your handy Visor to your work computer via cradle and use the PalmDesktop or other software does this not make your Visor a "part" of the network and therefore subject to the same jurisdiction as the a computer on the network?
I have not connected my Visor to my work computer because of this, even though my company is pretty flexible about use of corporate computers.
Has anyone else thought about this, or does it really not matter to most people?

Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Alive and well on VisorCentral.com
Posts: 861

When they want to pay me for my Prism & springboards etc. then they can consider it their property. (fyi - my company considers handhelds a "personal" item and can not be expensed)

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Registered: Apr 2000
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 604

My guess is a court would conclude that the information on your handheld is yours. However, anything on the desktop (including stuff deposited there by synchronization) is accessible by the company.

Registered: Oct 1999
Location:
Posts: 35

I would think the data on the PDA could be considered company property if it contains company information such as contacts, company secrets, etc.

Definitely the info on the desktop would be considered company property.

Since you purchased the PDA, I don't think they can claim the device is company property.

Registered: Feb 2000
Location:
Posts: 638

I would think that because you bought the device yourse;f, then it should be considered you're property, and on ly the information on it relevant to the company shoudl be property of the company.

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