Workplace Monitoring Tops Privacy Hit-List
✍ Scribed by Barbara Gengler
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 109 KB
- Volume
- 2001
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1353-4858
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✦ Synopsis
According to the Privacy Foundation, the rest of the top five are:
• Proposed new medical privacy rules.
• The FBI's controversial use of the Carnivore E-mail wiretap. • DoubleClick's stalled plan to track consumers online. • The arrival of chief privacy officers in corporate boardrooms. Rounding out the top ten were: • Changing privacy policies. • Merging financial information. • Wireless privacy battles. • Microsoft cookie-blocking software. • E-mail and Web activity history being sought in legal cases. "The rise of the Internet has sent a flood tide of privacy concerns through business and society, and the waves are breaking big-time in the workplace," said Stephen Keating, executive director of the Privacy Foundation.
"Two-thirds of major American firms now do some type of in-house electronic surveillance, while an estimated 27% of firms monitor E-mail."
Keating said some of the fallout from the surveillance can be measured in lost jobs, ranging from companies such as Dow Chemical, the New York Times, Xerox and the CIA, that have fired or disciplined employees for alleged misuse of workplace communication networks.
"Employers may be rightly concerned about security and productivity issues, or legal liability arising from E-mailed sexual banter, but pervasive or spotcheck surveillance conducted through key stroke monitoring software, storing voice-mail messages and using reports 5 How To Reduce Risks With ActiveX