1. Employee Privacy in the Wired Workplace
Another key difference between traditional surveillance and electronic surveillance is that employers can monitor workers' computer use secretly. ... As Lane explains, these programs record every key entered into the computer in hidden directories that can later be accessed or uploaded by supervisors; the programs can even scan for keywords tailored to individual companies (128-29). ... As PC World columnist Daniel Tynan points out, companies that don't monitor network traffic can be penalized for their ignorance: "Employees could accidentally (or deliberately) spill confidential inf...
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