In the modern workplace where many employees are using their employer's computer technology for business, there are often two differing viewpoints regarding privacy: the organization's and the employees'. Describe each party's viewpoint and state your own opinion on this issue.

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What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

?The right to privacy at work is also an important issue. Employers are using technology and corporate policies to manage worker productivity and protect the use of IS resources. Employers are mostly concerned about inappropriate web surfing, with over half of employers monitoring the web activity of their employees. Organizations also monitor employees' email, with more than half retaining and reviewing messages. Statistics such as these have raised employee privacy concerns. In many cases, workers claim their right to privacy trumps their companies' rights to monitor employee use of IS resources. However, most employers today have a policy that explicitly eliminates any expectation of privacy when an employee uses any company-owned computer, server, or email system. TheFourth Amendment protects individuals against unreasonable searches and seizures and requires that warrants be issued only upon probable cause and specifying the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized. The courts have ruled that, without a reasonable expectation of privacy, there is no Fourth Amendment protection for the employee. Students' opinions will vary.