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Privacy Rights in the Workplace, 2006.
A look at the issues concerning ethics in the workplace.
996 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss and analyze business ethics in the workplace. Specifically, it identifies a basic physical privacy right issue at Harrah's casino in Reno, Nevada. In July 2001, a Reno bartender filed suit against Harrah's, Inc., the worldwide casino gaming corporation, after she was fired from her bartending job. Darlene Jespersen had worked for Harrah's for twenty-one years as a bartender and in other areas of the casino for not complying to new dress rules. It discusses how the Jespersen case is a clear physical privacy rights issue and contends that individual should not give up the rights and ethics they believe in just so they can be employed.
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"Jespersen's position is based on the deontological considerations that a business should take into consideration regarding employee rights. Morally, it is wrong to force an employee to do something they morally or ethically disagree with, especially after the company hired the employee. If a policy changes, there should be consideration for employees who have been employed for years and may not "fit" with the current policy. As Jespersen emotionally noted, the company could have grandfathered her non-adherence to the program before they took the step of firing her. That would have been the moral and ethical thing to do for a long-time employee. However, that was not an option, and it points to the rigidity of the corporation and its rules."
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Email Privacy Rights, 2005.
An examination of email privacy rights as they relate to employees, employers, and the workplace.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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The paper explores email privacy rights concerning employees, employers, and the workplace. The paper explains employer vs employee rights. The paper also includes the invasion of privacy lawsuits.
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"The growing number of employees with desktop computers and work-provided laptop computers has increased management concerns for balancing potential liability and loss of productivity issues against the employees' rights to privacy."
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The Privacy Rights of Individuals, 2005.
This paper discusses court cases, which deal with the privacy rights of individuals in the areas of homosexuality, drug testing, birth control and the right to die.
1,270 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 13 sources, APA, $ 43.95
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This paper explains that, although everyone agrees that privacy rights of individuals should be protected by governmental laws, the extent of one's right to privacy has often been a matter of vast disagreement in the court system of the United States. The author points out that an individual's right to sexual privacy, including homosexuality, is an issue that has been brought before the courts repeatedly; "Bowers v. Hardwick" is a landmark case fought in 1986, which tested these boundaries. The paper relates that the United States Supreme Court has established that, to some extent, an individual does have a limited right to die: by citing "Griswold v. Connecticut" and even "Roe v. Wade", the court stated that, if the right to privacy is broad enough to include a woman's decision to terminate her pregnancy, it also provides a basis for the right to die.
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"Drug testing is another issue that has been fiercely debated in the courts. With the increase of illegal drug use across the United States, many institutions have tried to institute a policy of random testing in order to combat the problem. Opponents of this policy claim that these random drug tests are an invasion of privacy rights and violate the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches. A group of parents challenged the Oklahoma school district's policy of random drug testing in front of the Supreme Court. The school district established a policy of random urine tests for students who want to join the marching band, academic team or any competitive extracurricular activity. In previous cases, the court had ruled that general urine testing required a warrant or some evidence of drug use. However, in a school setting, there is a lower expectation to privacy and in Vernonia School District 47J v. Acton in 1995, the Supreme Court ruled that drug testing for student athletes did not violate their privacy rights, since these students were the most at risk and could choose whether or not to participate in sporting activities."
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Privacy Rights, 2005.
A research paper on different aspects of current privacy rights and the acceptance of their violation by the U.S. government, such as the Patriot Act and surveillance issues.
824 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 29.95
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This paper explains privacy rights as they relate to anti-utopian literature, such as "Brave New World" or "1984". It also describes current violations of these rights as they relate to technological advances and military operations.
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"Privacy can be considered one of the most valued rights of a civilized society. The framers of the constitution had this in mind when they developed search and seizure laws to protect the citizens' privacy from British soldiers. The American Civil Liberties Union predicts, "The United States is at risk of turning into a full-fledged surveillance society" (ACLU). The invasion of privacy has long been evident in anti-utopian literature, and now it is becoming more common, openly available, and more accepted by our government."
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Censorship and Privacy Rights, 2003.
A persuasive essay that analyzes the social problems of censorship and violations of privacy rights and persuades American citizens to take a stance against government manipulation.
2,126 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 66.95
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This paper carefully describes the sociopolitical problems of censorship and privacy rights and presents a proposal of possible solutions to these problems. It explores various modern government manipulations that have been increased since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 and includes an analysis of various new legislation such as the Patriot Act.
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"Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every website you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend?all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as ?a virtual centralized grand database??. To this computerized dossier on your private life from commercial sources, add every piece of information that [the] government has about you?passport application, driver?s license and bridge toll records, judicial and divorce records, complaints from noisy neighbors to the FBI?your lifetime paper trail plus the latest hidden camera surveillance?and you have the supersnoop?s dream: a ?Total Information Awareness? about every US citizen? (Krigg 2) This serves as just one example of the many acts that were passed due to an increased desire for national security."
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Privacy Rights and the Internet, 2003.
This paper discusses the ease of obtaining personal information on the internet and the lack of privacy rights including for inmates.
995 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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This paper explains that, although a prisoner has limited rights, there are certain protections provided to prisoners under the law, which brings up questions in terms of the rights and protections offered prisoners with regards to their personal privacy and information, which can be easily found on the internet. The author points out that, at present, there are no laws regarding internet privacy and reviews the United States' long history of struggling with privacy issues using the cases "Roe V. Wade" (1977), "Olmstead vs. United States 277 U.S. 438" (1928) and "Katz vs. United States, 389 U.S. 347" (1967). The paper states that, because there currently are no laws concerning privacy on the internet, there should be no problem with using VeriSign as a company to introduce e-commerce to the inmates as this company's policy considers the protection of an individual's privacy of the utmost importance.
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"There are also more complex searches that a person can perform on the internet. For a fee, several companies will offer a complete profile of a person. For example, a company called, US Search, will find anybody and offers services such as background checks, locators, criminal search, sex offender search, and department of corrections search. They also offer other information like marriage and divorce certificates. There are many of these sites. They work by compiling databases, similar to the ones that law enforcement uses to find people by social security number or license number. Another site compiles scientific data as well. Abika.com offers background searches, psychological profiles, DNA profiling, etc. In short, if it is part of the public record, it can be compiled in a database for businesses to sell."
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Privacy Rights - A Supreme Court Authority, 2005.
Questions whether the Supreme Court of the US has the power to limit President Bush in his advocacy.
737 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 26.95
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There is much conflict over the issue of privacy in the US government today. Though much of the conflict revolves around the right to an abortion without parental or spousal notification, the right certainly applies to other aspects, like the Patriot Act and Civil Rights movement, in the lives of its constituents. Through the use of various amendments, cases and other resources, this essay examines these aspects and proves that a right to privacy exists in the Constitution, although not stated explicitly, and argues for the Supreme Court authority to undermine the Congress.
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"The right against unsanctioned intrusion of the government in the lives of its constituents is a fundamental, unalienable right of human beings to privacy. However, governments often create law enforcement agencies specifically designed to override this right in order to maintain security within the country. Civil rights libertarians strongly criticize such intervention, arguing, with proof, that such designs allow governments to become repressive regimes and prosecute people for political dissent. The issue does not concern whether a right to privacy is important, which it undoubtedly is, but whether the Supreme Court has been granted enough authority by the US Constitution to enforce this right."
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The Decline of Privacy in the Workplace, 2002.
An exploration of the invasion of privacy in the workplace, which is carried out by monitoring, testing, and investigating the employee, and the laws that protect employee privacy rights.
1,602 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper briefly examines the increasing invasion of privacy in the workplace as a result of technology advancement and employers? efforts to keep responsible, honest, and professional employees. It discusses Fourth Amendment rights and employers? practices in telephone, computer and email monitoring, polygraph and drug testing, and background investigations.
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"The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution?s Bill of Rights protects people against unreasonable searches of their persons or homes and seizures of their personal possessions. Although the Constitution does not mention the word ?Privacy?, it was thought that the Bill of Rights covered certain privacy rights. The invasion of privacy can be thought of on two levels. The first level involves events that can be seen and observed. The second level includes information that generates permanent records and can therefore be searched. When the Bill of Rights was written in 1791, it was during a time when people learned about each other from what they observed in public. Permanent records consisted mainly of private letters and journals. The protection offered by the Fourth Amendment seemed adequate at the time."
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Workplace Privacy, 2003.
Proposes a new law called the Workplace Privacy Productivity Act to standardize workplace privacy.
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 31.95
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This paper proposes a new law called The Workplace Privacy and Productivity Act to standardize workplace privacy issues rather than having the courts resolve them on a case-by-case basis. The paper discusses balancing the needs of the organization with the needs of employees.
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"Employees and employers have long struggled to balance the needs of the organization with the personal needs of workers. As employees work longer hours they may feel entitled to use the phones provided by the employer for ..."
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The Rights to Access and Privacy, 2005.
This article discusses the legal limitations on photojournalists.
1,328 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 44.95
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This article reflects the legal limitations faced by photojournalists in their work. The writer maintains that the area of law which applies to photojournalists is quite complex and constantly changes in order to meet the changing needs of society. The writer notes that as a general guide, the most common of these legal restrictions can be divided into five categories: access, privacy, libel, procedure and copyright. However, a photojournalist's ability to take newsworthy photographs most specifically depends on the limitations in the rights to access and to privacy. The writer discusses the law on this matter and the paper mentions different cases regarding photographs in journalism.
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Introduction
Part I: Right to Access
Part II: Right to Privacy
Conclusion
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"However, like Gabriel Tait, photojournalists, despite any status as members of the press, can be arrested if they are believed to be interfering with an emergency or a government operation. Courts have long since established that journalists have limited access to certain areas, which can generally be divided into the two categories of public and private property.
Public property such as public schools, fire departments, and post offices are under the control of government agencies. Photography in areas such as these is prohibited unless permission is expressly granted to the photojournalist. In courtrooms, however, while under government authority, the limitations on press coverage of court proceedings is varied from state to state. The choice was given to each individual state's higher court to "promulgate standards and guidelines regulating radio, television, and other photographic coverage of court proceedings" in 1982 by the American Bar Association."
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Privacy in the Workplace, 2008.
This paper looks at the issue of workplace privacy and discusses trends in workplace surveillance.
1,194 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 40.95
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In this article, the writer discusses the issue of workplace privacy and the concerns that accompany this issue. Several individuals were interviewed via email for the purpose of this paper and their opinions are noted. Additional research regarding workplace privacy and future trends in workplace surveillance are discussed in detail. The suggestion is made that existing legislation regarding employee privacy protections are insufficient and clearly weighted towards the employer.
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Interview One-HR Administrator
Interview Two-IT Administrator
Additional Research Related to Workplace Privacy
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"Additionally, as technology continues to advance and new and novel ways of monitoring employees are conceived, the threat to workplace privacy seems certain to crossover directly to employees' personal privacy domains. One example of such new technologies being gradually adapted to employee surveillance and monitoring is the use and application of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. RFID technology is a radio enabled computer chip that is now in widespread use in the retail and foodservice industries among many others, which allows for more accurate and better types of data regarding products to be tracked and recorded by allowing easy reading and scanning of these products without ever being handled. While the use of RFID technology in the workplace might seem far-fetched and it certainly is not in widespread use by any stretch of the imagination, the fact that some foreign governments such as Mexico's judicial branch have implanted an RFID chip in some workers in order to control access to sensitive areas of its facilities should be alarming."
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Workplace Privacy, 2006.
A look at workplace privacy and whether employees really have a right to privacy in the workplace.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 5 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper discusses the fact that employees have expectations that they can communicate by phone or email without being monitored and that private offices and lockers will remain that way. The paper also discusses that, in spite of these expectations, most laws do not protect the employees' rights'; rather, they protect the right of employers to protect themselves from employee abuse.
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"Most people believe that they have a right to privacy under the law, whether at home or on the job. For that reason, it is common for people to feel comfortable with the idea of sending personal emails or making personal phone calls while on company time. Despite these expectations, however, most employees are not entitled to complete privacy in the workplace. Rules do differ between public sector and private sector jobs, however, and workers do have some responsibilities in keeping the rights that they do have intact. Regardless of these expectations, or perhaps due to them, employees may be surprised to learn how little privacy they can expect in the workplace. Employee Expectations Employees seem to feel that they have certain rights to privacy in the workplace. They expect that they can communicate with other people freely, by phone or by email, without monitoring."
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Privacy in the Global Workplace, 2004.
A look at the issues surrounding privacy in today's workplace that have arisen from advances in technology.
1,164 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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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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Privacy in the Workplace, 2008.
Looks at the way technology in the workplace is invading employee privacy and affecting employers.
4,145 words (approx. 16.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 111.95
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This paper explains that technology is often thought to increase employees' productivity, simplify work and make workplaces better; however, technology in the workplace also robs employees of privacy and employers of profits when it is misused by employees. The paper points out that experts believe that a certain amount of investigation about and surveillance of employees is necessary to manage a successful business operation. The paper then explores how much investigation and surveillance is too much and how can employees protect their privacy in the workplace. In addition, the paper offers a compromise position, which balances employer needs against employee rights, to the benefit of both groups.
Table of Contents:
Abstract
Introduction
What is Personal Information and Privacy?
Employee Point of View
Advantages for Employees
Disadvantages for Employees
Negative Impacts on Workers
Employer Point of View
Why is Surveillance and Monitoring Necessary?
Surveillance can Increase Productivity
Too Much Surveillance can Hinder Productivity
What Types of Technologies are Available to the Employer?
How Can Employees Protect Their Privacy?
Common Ground
Conclusion
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"Many employees are uneasy about this monitoring. They may wish to keep their financial situation private, or may not want the employer "to know their savings patterns" or that they are going through a divorce. Many employees are especially sensitive about their health information; a concern recognized by P.I.P.E.D.A., which outlines the types of health information it covers. Sexual orientation is another area some employees consider sensitive and wish not to disclose to the employer."
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Workplace Privacy, 2007.
An analysis of employee monitoring in the workplace and its effects on the human element of work life.
2,969 words (approx. 11.9 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 87.95
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This paper discusses the issues relating to workplace privacy of the employee. It discusses why employee monitoring has become more commonplace recently and looks at drug and alcohol testing, soliciting criminal records checks, background checks and specifically, electronic performance monitoring. The paper then discusses the human element of work life and how this may be affected by electronic monitoring.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Technology & Employee Monitoring
Cell Phones Monitoring
Web Monitoring
Emails Monitoring
Monitoring Blogs
Monitoring Phones
Off -Duty Hours Monitoring
Medical Conditions
Legislation
Pros and Cons of Electronic Monitoring
Solution for the Problem
Consideration of Human Elements
Training and Informing
Balanced Policies
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"Human resource and public administration policy makers should carry out a complete cost and benefit analysis. They must be completely biased and selfish in implementing employee monitoring policies. They have to create a balance between organizational benefits and employee concerns. Most of the monitoring activities offer potential benefits from an employer exclusive perspective. However, employee cannot be disregarded as a mere pawn in the whole game. Employees also have a human side to them. They definitely are obliged to the organization with respect to their duties but they also have their human weakness. The come to work in offices but they cannot completely leave their personal lives behind. Similarly they also sometimes take work or work stress home but work cannot completely overtake or hijack their personal lives. Employers should have the consideration of employee privacy. Similarly, employees should also consider that in order to protect their business interests, employers will exercise some controls. The controls should be in the limits and should not cross the limit where they become intrusive of employees personal lives."
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