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Privacy Issues in the Workplace: Employer Monitoring of Employee Technology Use

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10.05.01

Melanie Samuels and Sara Gregory

Computers, and computer tools such as email and the internet, have changed the way many employees work. These tools have also changed the way employers can monitor an employee’s behaviour. Balancing the employer’s right to monitor its workforce with the employees’ right to privacy with respect to technology use is becoming an increasingly contentious issue in the workplace.