TY - GEN
T1 - Ethical issues surrounding the asymmetric nature of workplace monitoring
AU - Bustard, John D.
PY - 2013/8/1
Y1 - 2013/8/1
N2 - Public discussion of the privacy concerns of individuals has focused on protecting them from criminal attacks, government spying and the manipulation of consumers by businesses. While these are important areas of concern, there is also a significant ethical and societal risk from privacy intrusion from other sources, such as employers. Many employers gather extensive and highly personal information on their staff. The availability of this information is often asymmetric, with higher status employees having correspondingly greater access to the personal data of others. This paper examines some of the risks inherent in this asymmetry and discusses to what extent existing legal and social measures are sufficient to protect individuals, organisations and society.
AB - Public discussion of the privacy concerns of individuals has focused on protecting them from criminal attacks, government spying and the manipulation of consumers by businesses. While these are important areas of concern, there is also a significant ethical and societal risk from privacy intrusion from other sources, such as employers. Many employers gather extensive and highly personal information on their staff. The availability of this information is often asymmetric, with higher status employees having correspondingly greater access to the personal data of others. This paper examines some of the risks inherent in this asymmetry and discusses to what extent existing legal and social measures are sufficient to protect individuals, organisations and society.
KW - Ethics
KW - privacy
KW - workplace monitoring
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84880723663&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-39345-7-24
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-39345-7-24
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84880723663
SN - 9783642393440
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 226
EP - 235
BT - Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy, and Trust - First International Conference, HAS 2013, Held as Part of HCI International 2013, Proceedings
T2 - 1st International Conference on Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy, and Trust, HAS 2013, Held as Part of 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI 2013
Y2 - 21 July 2013 through 26 July 2013
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