Recently the company I work for has implemented a third party solution (zscalar) to intercept all outbound https traffic. Although conceptually I recognize the desire to protect the company. I feel like this is a huge invasion of my privacy in particular when accessing a personal account.
You can use your cell to tether your personal machine if you are allowed to bring one.<p>You can also just buy a 4g enabled tablet and use that unless you work in finance.<p>If your workplace wants to monitor its own network that is pretty normal for any company over 50 employees. Most of the polite ones will tell you that they are monitoring.
It seems like every mid-size-or-larger organization does this now. I think the only way to escape this is to work for a trusting "mom and pop" outfit, or work for yourself.<p>Places that do this kind of thing (most places) usually have a culture of secrets and backstabbing. Life is too short.<p>"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened." - Matthew 7:7-8<p>Or, if the check is just too damn juicy to part with the bastards, SSH and VPN are your friends.
I have no problem with companies doing this as long as they inform their employees that all web traffic, including https, is monitored. As a rule, never ever trust a device or local network other than your own. Bring your own device and use your own mobile data connection.<p>I worked at a startup that was acquired by a big company and subsequently had all manner of crap implemented including zscaler. They didn't tell us about zscaler and when I discovered this I let them know I was pissed.
Can you use your smartphone for personal use? I don't use work computers for things I want private because I don't want my credit card #, passwords, etc. on them.<p>Browsing HN on my lunch break though? No problem.
You're going to be hard-pressed now to find a company of any size that doesn't do something of this sort.<p>It's their network and their resources, so they get to make the rules.<p>If you don't like their rules, don't access personal accounts from work.<p>My employer has also implemented zscalar, but I never accessed things like my bank account, credit card accounts, social media accounts, etc. from work even before they did that.