Electronic Monitoring of Employees

The penetration of computer technology in society has given rise to new moral dilemmas. The 26 ground-breaking essays in this insightful anthology define the nature of this new moral landscape and offer thoughtful answers to the ethical questions raised by the interaction of people and computers.

At what point do personalization and privacy clash? Are there limits to how personal a company can get? Who owns personal information? To what extent should technology be constrained by social factors? In Making It Personal, business technology and strategy expert Bruce Kasanoff offers a mission-critical briefing for anyone who wants to know how to profit from personalization without crossing the line. Drawing from a wide array of primary sources, Kasanoff explores the cultural, political, legal, and technological dimensions of personalization and how they play out in the corporate environment. Making It Personal offers a unique, multidimensional perspective to a phenomenon that is revolutionizing business and will play out in dramatic fashion in the years to come.

This text examines some crucial aspects of surveillance processes with a view to showing what constitutes them, why the growth of surveillance is accelerating and what is really at stake personally and politically.