Monday, April 14, 2008

Who's Watching You at Work?

Even if you think you've mastered the art of minimizing your browser
the second your boss rounds the corner, every click you make may be
monitored by your employer. In fact, most businesses say they do
monitor workers' use of the office's Internet access, phone systems,
etc. Whether or not that means trouble is all a matter of context, of
course, but what constitutes reasonable use is sticky question.

"Surveillance is now routine
business practice among American employers, both large and small, as
the cost and ease of introducing have dropped. You leave your rights at
the office door every day you go to work. Most surveillance is
conducted without any individualized suspicion, and personal as well as
business-related information is routinely collected," explained Jeremy
Gruber, legal director at the National Workrights Institute.


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