1. Employee Privacy in the Wired Workplace
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. ... Companies also are held legally accountable for many of the transactions conducted on their networks and with their technology. ... Although evaluating where to draw the line between employee rights and employer powers is often a duty that falls to the judicial system, the courts have shown little willingness to intrude o...
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