CSC 379:Week 4, Group 2

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Workplace Monitoring

The increasing prevalence of monitoring technologies in the workplace poses many ethical concerns. Existing technologies, like sniffers, can provide monitoring of employee actions on workstations and traffic on workplace networks such as email and instant messaging. Employers may also legally monitor phone conversions to a limited extent. While businesses are attempting to make sure their employees do a good job, excessive monitoring may cause harm to employees. Monitoring could be abused if personal information discovered while monitoring employees is used to discriminate against them.

Analyze the ethical implications of employers' use of workplace monitoring. Examine a couple new or emerging methods of workplace monitoring technology in detail.

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Methods of workplace monitoring

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/workplace-surveillance2.htm