Every Breath You Take; I'll Be Watching You

Introduction "Employers want to be sure their employees are doing a good job, but employees don't want their every sneeze or trip to the water cooler logged. That's the essential conflict of workplace monitoring" ("Employee Monitoring: Is There Privacy," 2002, para. 1). The right to privacy is one of the foundation blocks upon which America was built, and it is echoed in the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Employee privacy is perceived to be one …

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