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Privacy lacking in the office. (American Civil Liberties Union study reveals extent of employee surveillance)
Business Insurance, September, 1996 by Prince, Michael
Employers going to new lengths to monitor workers: ACLU Employers are using more sophisticated methods, and using them more frequently, to intrude on employee's workplace privacy, a recent report contends. The methods employers used that violate individual privacy include electronic monitoring of employees, drug testing and genetic testing, according to the report, "Surveillance Incorporated," which was written by the American Civil Liberties Union and updates a 1990 ACLU report entitled "A State of Emergency in the American Workplace." "We seem to be approaching a once unthinkable 'brave new world' in which a worker's every move can be monitored with total legal impunity," the report states.
"In heavily computerized industries today, for example, workers are...
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