1. Employee Privacy in the Wired Workplace
... keywords tailored to individual companies (128-29). Some experts have argued that a range of legitimate concerns justifies employer monitoring of employee Internet usage. As PC World columnist Daniel Tynan points out, companies that don't monitor network traffic can be penalized for their ignorance: "Employees could accidentally (or deliberately) spill confidential information...or allow worms to spread throughout a corporate network. ... million in 1999 alone" (Flynn). Companies also are held legally accountable for many of the transactions conducted on their networks and with their tec...
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