Can my employer see my browsing history when I'm not on their network?

584    Asked by ankur_3579 in Cyber Security , Asked on Feb 25, 2022

I have a personal phone which I use at work, and connect to the WiFi at work. I also brought my personal laptop to work a couple times and connected to the WiFi. My question is can my employer see my browsing history from when I was connected to my WiFi at home?

Answered by Ankit yadav

The answer to your question - Can my employer see my browsing history when I'm not on their network is that Your employer has the ability (although they are not necessarily implementing the ability) to log network traffic. So, if you refresh your browser or visit a site while on your company network, the url can and often is logged. Less likely, but possible is that the data contained in those packets is being captured as well. If it’s unencrypted it can be read with any packet analyzer. (Be wary of inputting data in any site that does not start with https://)

Your browser history? If your browser history is not syncing with any cloud service (iCloud, Chrome, Firefox etc) then it probably safe. It’s not going across the wire, so it can’t be captured. Even if it is, many cloud services encrypt data syncs. iCloud does. Google/Chrome does. Firefox does too.



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