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Your Cubicle Walls Have Eyes: Employer Spying on Employees on Rise

Posted by TimSlavin at October 25, 2004

"As more and more companies install monitoring software to track employee activities--threatening to turn cubicles into no-privacy zones--businesses that offer workplace surveillance tools are enjoying a boomlet.

Security cameras and phone monitoring have long given bosses a view into workers' daily habits. But now employers are going further than ever, thanks to technology that can capture e-mail and instant messaging conversations, or record a worker's every keystroke."

Another Halloween scary story from CNET about companies making money selling software to businesses that want to monitor their employee computer use.
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http://news.com.com/Mind+those+IMs--your+cubicles+walls+have+ears/2100-1014_3-5423220.html

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