Ethics-Governance: Article: Little Brother is Watching You: Employee Monitoring

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Little Brother is Watching You: Employee Monitoring Issues in Ethics - V. 9, N. 2 Spring 1998 LittleBrother is watching you If you happen to be reading this article online from your computer at work, your boss may be reading over your shoulder-electronically. New technologies allow employers to check whether employees are wasting time at recreational Web sites or sending unprofessional e-mails. But when do an employer's legitimate business interests become an unacceptable invasion of worker privacy? By Miriam Schulman Last year, a software package came on the market that allows employers to monitor their workers' Internet use. It employs a database of 45,000 Web sites that are categorized as "productive," "unproductive," or "neutral," and rates employees based on their browsing. Full Article: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/iie/v9n2/brother.html


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