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Date: 2000-07-22

US: Heimliche Ueberwachung im Buero


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Wenn die Angestellten von der Geschäftsleitung elektronisch
bespitzelt werden, dann haben sie zumindest ein Recht
darauf, davon zu erfahren.

post/scrypt: Von den "ususal suspects" war diesmal Jim
Dempsey vom Center for Democracy and Technology bei der
Präsentation dabei.
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For Immediate Release July 20, 2000

SCHUMER, CANADY, BARR INTRODUCE LEGISLATION
TO PREVENT SECRET COMPUTER MONITORING OF
EMPLOYEES

Bill Requires Employers to Notify Workers of Electronic
Monitoring

Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) and Reps. Charles Canady
(R-FL) and Bob Barr (R-GA) today introduced legislation that
would prevent employers from secretly monitoring their
employees' electronic communications. The Notice of
Electronic Monitoring Act requires employers to notify their
employees if they are scanning or reading their e-mail,
monitoring their keystrokes or web use, or listening to their
phone conversations.

"We would never stand for it if an employer steamed open an
employee's mail, read it, and put it back. It is the same thing
with an employee's e-mail," said Schumer. "This legislation
says to employers that if you are monitoring employees'
electronic communications, make sure you notify them first."

Schumer's legislation requires employers to notify new
employees of electronic monitoring upon their hiring and all
employees on an annual basis thereafter and when
monitoring policies change. The notification must clearly
spell out the type of computer use that will be monitored,
how this monitoring will be accomplished, the frequency of
the monitoring, the kinds of information that will be obtained,
and how the information will be store
d and used.

The bill does not prohibit any type of monitoring or require per
call or per incident notice. It also allows for secret monitoring
if an employer has reason to believe that an employee is
engaging in conduct harmful to another employee or the
employer.

"New technology has made it cheap and easy for employers
to secretly monitor everything an employee does online,"
said Schumer. "This legislation provides workers with a first
line of defense against a practice that amounts to nothing
more than a blatant invasion of privacy."

Schumer announced the legislation at a press conference
with Professor Jeffrey Rosen, author of The Unwanted Gaze:
The Destruction of Privacy in America, Jim Dempsey of the
Center for Democracy and Technology, Lewis Maltby of the
National Workrights Institute, and Greg Nojeim of the
American Civil Liberties Union.

Source
http://schumer.senate.gov/html/schumer__canady__barr_introduc.html


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published on: 2000-07-22
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