The computer world is just now trying to figure out what the church understood 20 years ago. According to an article by Marcus Browne about office security threats, 85% of employers consider their own employees to be the greatest threat of network exposure to IT threats. The question has been asked for years: how much privacy do you give to your employees?
“Set up the computer in a place where the family regularly can see what is happening on the screen,” says the June 2001 issue of the New Era for LDS youth. Are employees not responsible to their employers the same way children are responsible to their parents? The question is debatable, but the church doesn’t make exceptions for adults using the computers and ultimately, the way I see it, whether it be my house or my business, “if you’re under my roof, you play by my rules. What you do under your roof is up to you.” Reserving the right to search anywhere at anytime for purposes of security is not only reasonable, but largely expected in today’s world.
It seems ironic that the church, which is ancient relative to the dawn of the technological age has adapted so quickly and so adeptly to the changes in society. It is a testimony to the fact that whether socially, academically, emotionally, or politically, you will rarely go wrong modeling your life after gospel standards.
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