Some employers track employees during their private lives with the GPS on their cell phone.
Privacy
New developments in technology are on a collision course with the privacy of American employees. Employers monitor everything employees say and do at work by reading e-mail, eavesdropping on telephone calls, and spying on employees with hidden cameras, sometimes in bathrooms and locker rooms.
Even privacy in our private lives is under attack as employers track off-duty employees with GPS equipped cell phones and fire people for smoking and drinking in their own homes.
Our privacy is undermined even before we are hired by review of personal medical records, and genetic discrimination.
Genetic testing uses laboratory methods to look at your genes, which are the DNA instructions you inherit from your mother and your father. Genetic tests may be used to identify increased risks of health problems, to choose treatments, or to assess responses to treatments. It can also be used to determine innocence and guilt and that can be a very slippery slope.
Employers monitor e-mail, Internet access, stored documents, and virtually everything else you say and do on your office computer, even if the information is personal. Even our home computers are increasingly subject to monitoring.
NWI weighs in:
05/06/20: Thermal Cameras Being Used to Monitor the Health of Workers 11/5/18: Will new techniques spark resentment? Eye Catching Wall Street Journal Interview on Social Network Monitoring New Paradigm Paper Legislative Testimony of Social Network Privacy NWI Endorses H.R. 582 Sample Op-ed Column: Employee Privacy in the Digital Workplace Electronic Monitoring: A Poor Solution to Management Problem Testimony of Lewis L. Maltby Support of H.R. 1900 Testimony of Lewis L. Maltby Regarding Notice of Electronic Monitoring Act (H.R. 4908) Model Policy on Electronic Monitoring Electronic Monitoring in the Workplace: Common Law & Federal Statutory Protection Privacy Under Siege: Electronic Monitoring in the Workplace
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05/06/20: Thermal Cameras Being Used to Monitor the Health of Workers 11/5/18: Will new techniques spark resentment? Eye Catching Wall Street Journal Interview on Social Network Monitoring New Paradigm Paper Legislative Testimony of Social Network Privacy NWI Endorses H.R. 582 Sample Op-ed Column: Employee Privacy in the Digital Workplace Electronic Monitoring: A Poor Solution to Management Problem Testimony of Lewis L. Maltby Support of H.R. 1900 Testimony of Lewis L. Maltby Regarding Notice of Electronic Monitoring Act (H.R. 4908) Model Policy on Electronic Monitoring Electronic Monitoring in the Workplace: Common Law & Federal Statutory Protection Privacy Under Siege: Electronic Monitoring in the Workplace