Privacy in the Global Workplace

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This paper examines how privacy in the workplace is one of the most burning and charged issues nowadays and how it is widely discussed internationally. The paper also explores the topic of privacy in the workplace by stating that privacy is a basic and fundamental human right, which is of particular importance for Americans, since the right to privacy has always been central to their major liberties and freedoms. It discusses how the information age has initiated a paradigm shift in the sphere of privacy and how the contemporary meaning of this concept is much wider and more complicated. It shows how the existence of computer data banks makes it easier to store large amounts of personal information about the employees.

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"The problem is not simply about storing information on PCs at work. Frederick Lane in his The Naked Employee: How Technology Is Compromising Workplace Privacy suggests a statistics that nearly half of all employers in the US review their workers' e-mails from time to time let alone the personal phone call, web-surfing and video recording. Lane also speaks about employers' using such technological developments as GPS monitoring of the cars belonging to a company or even infra-red ID cards for the location tracking. Keystroke loggers can be used to check every key pressed on a computer keyboard in order to control information that is typed and further deleted."

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