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=Workplace Monitoring=
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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.'''
 
==Resources==
===Relevant Class Website Links:===
* [http://ethics.csc.ncsu.edu/social/workplace/monitoring/ http://ethics.csc.ncsu.edu/social/workplace/monitoring/]
* [http://ethics.csc.ncsu.edu/privacy/e-mail/ http://ethics.csc.ncsu.edu/privacy/e-mail/]

Revision as of 20:33, 26 July 2007

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