With more and more jobs today going towards the internet for a source to improve their status. It brings upon even more ethical issues that a company would have to deal with. Not only do they have to deal with the standard ethical issues such as honesty and conduct of their employee's, but now they are going to have to deal with a privacy issue. The internet is a fast growing trend that a lot of companies seem to be relying on for improving their businesses. Whether they are using it to sell products to customers or just an easier way to transfer information from one co-worker to another or from business to business, the internet allows for a higher risk of ethical issues to occur.
It is pretty much uncommon today to find a prosperous company out there that does not use the internet in anyway shape or form. With that said, almost every employee in a particular business has access to the internet. Some people may look at this as a freedom that they are given to be able to use the internet as they please, but little do they know it is a rather large ethical issue. The issue is that of surveillance. It has been known that a lot of companies out there monitor what their employee's do during the hours that they are scheduled. With the use of the internet becoming more popular, more and more companies are asking themselves if they should invest to monitor what the internet is being used for during company hours. .
It has been known that particular companies have had trouble with employee's selling important business information to other competitive businesses through the internet. According to Frank Gillman, director of technology at Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory LLP, a large law firm in Los Angeles, one of his employee's did not understand the concept of private information. The worker sold company-owned disk drives for money to support his cocaine habit. To cover his own tracks so that he would not get caught, the employee removed the system's data-mirroring capability, making the computer systems think that the disk drives he sold were actually still there.
