Most companies run split tunnel VPNs, I.E they only route work traffic over the VPN itself. All other traffic, like traffic straight out of the internet, just goes over your regular connection.
This limits the bandwidth the VPN has to handle, especially important with people streaming so much.
This isn't everywhere though. If you don't know if they use split tunnel or not, assume they don't and are logging all your traffic.
Also, IT folk generally do not give a fuck about what you're doing if it doesn't involve malware, but there may be automated systems in play that take it out of their hands.
However many VPNs deployed in mid to large work environments are not just a VPN but a whole endpoint client that is filtering web access, etc and logging everything.
I know most people here would know the difference but I guess unsurprisingly most don't have a clue as they just call it "the VPN" even though its much more then that.
Commander, please refrain from making such crude queries on the ship computer. My most recent security review of the ships logs resulted in a short circuit in my modesty routines and 3 hours 17 minutes and 4 seconds of system downtime.
I want them to be uncomfortable, maybe get a little ptsd.
I want them to look me in the eye and explain what they didn't like.
Yeah, I thought so.
Remember, always keep your browsing history so fucked up nobody will want to ever even think about what they just read or saw.
It's them who wanted to look after all.
I'm guessing any time the Federation equivalent of the FBI gets a ping for whatever Riker is searching for, they just groan and go back to what they were doing.