Incidentally you ought to have a policy that explains why you keep these logs for so long. Which is to say, the law requires you to have a policy. If there are staff disciplinary aspects then they ought to be applied as uniformly as possible: certainly running logs to tape sounds like you hang onto stuff on the offchance that you need a reason to fire someone later. There ought to be a statute of limitations on that kind of thing.
I am, of course, a hand-wringing liberal. But I think the miniscule chance that I die in a tube explosion at the hands of lunatics is a risk worth paying to keep our society one in which our every move is recorded for later perusal to "find anything incriminating". I'm reminded of the hatchet job that is done on anyone the police shoot by accident. Or the similar thing Blunkett got the boys of the home office to do on Maxine Carr.
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Date: 2006-07-05 07:03 pm (UTC)I am, of course, a hand-wringing liberal. But I think the miniscule chance that I die in a tube explosion at the hands of lunatics is a risk worth paying to keep our society one in which our every move is recorded for later perusal to "find anything incriminating". I'm reminded of the hatchet job that is done on anyone the police shoot by accident. Or the similar thing Blunkett got the boys of the home office to do on Maxine Carr.