PU Business Employee Crime & Insider Crimes Discussion

Instructions: 

Your discussions (presentations) should (1) analyze the situation and (2) use analogies and similar cases where possible. You will (1) argue against the case, (2) defense the case and (3) evaluate the arguments and decide the case.

TopicAsmt1: Work (Privacy and Company)
Issue1:  Is it an invasion of privacy for a company to search the web for information by and about a job applicant? 

TopicAsmt2: Employee Crime, “Insider” crimes
A former employee of Time Warner helped steal 92 million usernames and passwords and sold them to a spammer. Several employees of Bank of America and other banks were arrested for selling account information on about 500,000 customers. The information was purchased by law firms and collection agencies. (June 2, 2005).

Issue2: How could an employer prevent this kind of thing from happening again in their company?

TopicAsmt3: Monitoring home workers
Some employers are extending various computer monitoring of office workers to employees who work at home. The systems capture screen images at random times (presumably to make sure employees are working when they are supposed to be), taking pictures of the employee with the camera in the computer, and screening employee phone calls made from home to detect his/her activity.

Issue3: Do you think your privacy is violated since this is in your home? Why and why not?