1. Employee Privacy in the Wired Workplace
... breaches in computer security cost institutions $100 million in 1999 alone" (Flynn). Companies also are held legally accountable for many of the transactions conducted on their networks and with their technology. Legal scholar Jay Kesan points out that the law holds employers liable for employees' actions such as violations of copyright laws, the distribution of offensive or graphic sexual material ... , and illegal disclosure of confidential information (312). These kinds of concerns should give employers, in certain instances, the right to monitor employee behavior. But employers rushi...
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