Timeline for Fired from job - left my Gmail, Stack Exchange, LinkedIn, and other personally owned accounts logged in. How do I proceed?
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| Sep 5, 2019 at 14:23 | comment | added | Kami Kaze | @aherocalledFrog This is not as easy as it sounds. As soon as IT forces access to your user account any good OS will at least notify you in one way or another that this happend. AFAIK to get access to windows you have to reset the userpassword, which means you will see this as soon as you try to login again. No help for OP but generally it should not be possible to access user accounts without the user noticing. | |
| Sep 5, 2019 at 7:01 | comment | added | Chris H | @GeorgeM of course they can't. I said they can reset the password so they can log in to your user account on their machine. Then they can access anything you've left logged in | |
| Sep 4, 2019 at 22:48 | comment | added | user90842 | IT cannot reset the password on your personal email, if you get to it first. Of course they should reset the password on your work account, that's very different. | |
| Sep 4, 2019 at 21:05 | comment | added | Chris H | @aherocalledFrog that should be true. I've dealt with a few tricky systems where getting meaningful data out was much easier logged in as the user who created it (dumb software putting metadata in the wrong place and needing it for export). Luckily I only had to deal with it with the relevant people's consent. | |
| Sep 4, 2019 at 20:04 | comment | added | aherocalledFrog | Even though IT can access or allow access to a user's account, even that should be rare, as they also have administrative access to all files on the computer, and usually even the archive of company email accounts. For large organizations that I've worked for, permission from the legal department was needed for IT to log in as an employee. | |
| Sep 4, 2019 at 15:46 | history | answered | Chris H | CC BY-SA 4.0 |