Employee and Workplace Monitoring Internet Resources
All Bark, No Byte: Employee E-Mail Privacy Rights In The Private Sector Workplace - Law student paper on e-mail privacy, or the lack thereof, in the private sector. URL: http://www.law.emory.edu/ELJ/volumes/fall98/rodriguez.html
Employee Monitoring: Is There Privacy In The Workplace? - Answers to some questions about monitoring of employees, their conversations, correspondence and privacy protection resources. URL: http://www.privacyrights.org/FS/fs7-work.htm
The disparity between public and private sector employee privacy protections: a call for legitimate privacy rights for private sector workers - Downloadable document from the American Business Law Journal and available for purchase through Northern Light's Special Collection. URL: http://library.northernlight.com/LW19970923040047011.html?cb=0&sc=0#doc
Monitoring Employees' Electronic Communications: Big Brother or Responsible Business? - Controversy over extent of legitimate monitoring of employees, particularly since the advent of electronic media such as e-mail and the Internet. URL: http://aftab.com/surveillance.htm
FindLaw.com: CyberSpace Law Center: Workplace Privacy - Several links to Internet resources and information relating to employee and workplace monitoring and privacy. Includes legislative documents and judicial cases as well as other surveys and articles. URL: http://cyber.findlaw.com/privacy/workplace.html
Nicolai Law Group Workplace Surveillance Memo - Memo relating recent court decisions holding employers liable for employee actions, which has prompted more employers to monitor employee activities, both on and off the job. Summary of state privacy statutes and differences between public and private employee's privacy. URL: http://www.niclawgrp.com/memos/199907.html
IS As A Threat To Privacy - Extensive textbook outline and notes regarding the threat to privacy of modern Information Systems. URL: http://osf1.gmu.edu/~esibley/ch2.html
The Spy Who Employed Me - Article on the reasons and methods of workplace surveillance. Also includes summary of protections available. URL: http://web.cln.com/archives/atlanta/newsstand/092797/cover2.htm
Right To Privacy In The Workplace In The Information Age - The perceived and implied right to privacy and its role in federal and state laws. Also concerns of electronic privacy. URL: http://www.bookzonepro.com/insights/articles/privacyright.html
Should Employers Have the Right to Monitor Employee’s Use of E-mail and the Internet? - Paper concerning electronic correspondence monitoring by employers. URL: http://www.unf.edu/~sbrand/index3termpaper.htm
Sanders vs. ABC et. al; Supreme Court of California - Lawsuit against the American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. (ABC) and another ABC employee who routinely and covertly videotaped conversations with coworkers, including the plaintiff. URL: http://www.lalabor.com/cases/privacy/sanders_california_privacy_99.html
Elements Of A Successful E-Mail Policy - Three part article on implementing a successful corporate e-mail policy. Part 1 concerned basic legal standards. Part 2 concerned applicable laws. Part 3 outlined the components of a legally sufficient and defensible workplace policy on e-mail. URLs: Part 1 - http://www.bankinfo.com/hr/emailpol.html; Part 2 - http://www.bankinfo.com/hr/emailpol2.html; Part 3 - http://www.bankinfo.com/hr/emailpol3.html
Walking The Workplace Privacy Tightrope - Article on seizing rights as an employer without violating the rights of employees. URL: http://www.nevadaemploymentlaw.com/article1.htm
Cyberkids In The Workplace - Downloadable article from Incentive Magazine for purchase through Northern Light's Special Collection. Relates a new way for employees to become distracted at work as daycare centers and preschools around the country are installing monitoring cameras so that parents can watch their kids while they're at work. URL: http://library.northernlight.com/PN19991214070001250.html?cb=0&sc=0#doc
Privacy Place News Daily News Stories, April 13, 2000 - Links to several stories regarding school fingerprinting, workplace monitoring, collecting personal data, and other similar and related stories. URL: http://www.privacyplace.com/news/00news/04_April/04_13/index.php
Computers Should Be Used To Monitor The Performance Of Individual Employees - Title indicates an argument in favor of workplace monitoring, but links are not working. URL: http://jhicksserver.cob.vt.edu/acct5514/Fall99/debates/jbidlema/debate.html
Employee Privacy In The Public Sector - Overview of the principal legal challenges, with respect to workplace privacy, facing today's governmental employer. Primarily focuses on Texas state and municipal employers, with some practical suggestions for meeting those challenges URL: http://www.akingump.com/labor/publications/att_art1.html
Tampering With Electronic Mail: Think Before You Peek - American Bar Association Law Practice Management article on the differing views regarding usage of e-mail and monitoring of e-mail on personal computers provided to employees of law firms by the firm. URL: http://www.abanet.org/LPM/newsletters/net2d/Pedrow.html
Technological Surveillance In The Workplace - Trends in employee and workplace monitoring, including briefs on several court cases on the subject. URL: http://www.fwlaw.com/techsurv.html
Electronic Communication In The Workplace - Brief article on interpretations of reasonable expectations of employee privacy. URL: http://www.cupahr.org/CJ4/01b.html
The Rights And Wrongs Of Workplace Snooping - Article on the ethics of workplace monitoring. URL: http://www.depaul.edu/ethics/monitor.html
Software and Information Industry Association Web Page - SIIA is comprised of companies in the software and information industries that comprise the digital economy. URL: http://www.siia.net