Naturally, employee monitoring has brought about a debate regarding privacy issues in the workplace. ... Although e-mail is growing at such a rapid pace in the workplace, the laws addressing employee privacy rights are not moving at the same pace. ... Since there are no clear consistent laws addressing employee privacy rights, employers are left to their own company policies. ... This action by the employer will guard it against the uncertainties of the future state of the law, while also putting the employee on notice that the e-mail communications are to be used for valid business purpos...

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The personal privacy issue is way to common in many institutions today. I believe the Privacy Act of 1974 protects individuals on all their personal records to include medical records. ... Natural and positive law are often synergistic when looking at today's work place. As well there are situations when each of those laws are no longer balanced. Society often regulates today's law and I think a good example of this is affirmative action. ...

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According to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) of 1986, "the law prohibits unauthorized interception of various electronic communications including email" . ... Since employer's provide the email and internet services in order for employee's to do their job's, employer's are not held, in most cases, liable of violating said law. ... Even though the ECPA is suppose to protect the employee from prying eyes, the employee's reasonable expectation of privacy, especially in the workplace, is minmal at best. ... Employees believe that their privacy is being di...

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His first formulation of the universal law states that one should act only according to the maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. ... If that occurred then it would be alright for everyone to lie in all situations which would lead to a society with no trust, privacy, or security among many other things. ...

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Should the patient's right to privacy and confidentiality take priority over the parent's right to the truth? ... The patients right to privacy and confidentiality are valid ethical laws, although so is being honest, and not giving false information. ... Nursing: Ethics and Law. ...

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Every citizen has the freedom to do as they please with their own lives as long as one is not violating the laws that are in place. ... Some of our rights within the Bill of Rights are freedom of religion, speedy trial, petition, speech; furthermore our rights beyond this are freedom of privacy, occupation, marriage, and residence. ... When ethical dilemmas conflict with these freedoms, the law tends to intervene. Sometimes, when one uses his or her rights in an ethically wrong way, one suffers the repercussions of the law because the action is considered ethically wrong. ...

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(Kants Kritik's of Judgement pp 73) This suggests that the freedom of the will entails the use of rationalizing to make choices and moral decissions. "...we think of man in a different sense and relation when we call him free, and when we regard him as subject to the laws of nature as being to the laws of nature... but both must be thought as necessarily united ..." ... Freedom of the will, an absolute ideal of objective truth, is inseperable with the laws of nature, the world of sensiblity and situational ethics. ... Because reflective Judgement from the emperical Laws (situational ethic...

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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. ... 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 very people helping to create the [data privacy] problem don't realize how bad it is," says Ed. ...

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Point Three Respect the privacy of other users, the organization, the client and of all stakeholders. As an IT professional you will respect the privacy of others whether it is other users of technology, or stakeholders. ... Know and respect laws pertaining to information technology. ...

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This action brought about many changes to the medical field such as the laws pertaining to voluntary participation in medical research, the use of these cells in new medical research where other cells have failed, and bringing to light the morality of not properly informing the people that are going into medical research. ... Due to what had happened to Henrietta Lacks in the 50s the laws pertaining to participation in medical research has changed. ... There are many consequences if doctors or medical personal ignore these laws. ... He claimed he wanted to give the family privacy by not divulg...

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Abortion is not only an issue when it comes to ethics, but morally as well. There are two main opinions in relation to abortion which are, pro-life, and pro-choice. The countless amounts of opinions, and beliefs make understanding the choices of abortion a tough topic to debate. Everyone has to make...

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As radiologic technologists we interact with the general public on a daily basis. Radiologic technologists are given a set of rules that they must follow to help them provide the best quality care for their patients. These rules are called the ASRT code of ethics. It is extremely important that tech...

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A code of conduct typically addresses issues pertaining to; preferred style of dress, avoiding illegal drugs, following instructions of superiors, being reliable and prompt, maintaining confidentiality, not accepting personal gifts from stakeholders as a result of company role, avoiding racial or sexual discrimination, avoiding conflict of interest, complying with laws and regulations, not using organization property for personal use, not discriminating against race or age or sexual orientation, and reporting illegal or questionable activities. ... Trustworthiness: honesty, integrity, prom...

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