Surveillance Technology

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This paper discusses the moral issue of the use of surveillance technology in the workplace. The paper contends that this not only violates an employee's right to a reasonable expectation of privacy, but serves as a mechanism for lowered morale and employee self-esteem. The paper presents numerous studies that suggest employers are increasingly willing to secretly monitor the actions of employees via surveillance equipment.

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"As technology continues to afford employers the ability to monitor the day to day activities of their employees, use of surveillance technology in the workplace is gaining popularity. There are numerous statistics available that report widespread use of employee surveillance devices, with some reporting as many as 60-80% of employers utilizing some form of surveillance technology to monitor employee actions and work activity (Taslitz, 2002; Lund, 1994). Though a majority of these employers admit that the survey employees, many of them also admit that they inform employees that they may be monitoring their actions at any given time. They are not however required by law to tell employee's when they are being monitored (Lund, 1994) and this lack of regulation makes many employee's uncomfortable with the surveillance technology process."

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