Top Privacy Issues of Y2K
"The rise of the Internet has sent a flood tide of privacy concerns through business and society, and the waves are breaking big-time in the workplace," said Stephen Keating, executive director of the Privacy Foundation. "Two-thirds of major American firms now do some type of in-house electronic surveillance, while an estimated 27 percent of firms monitor email."
Some of the fallout from that surveillance can be measured in lost jobs, as entities ranging from Dow Chemical to the Central Intelligence Agency have fired or disciplined employees for alleged misuse of workplace communication networks.
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