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The _____ argument and the recent availability of capable technology have been driving companies toward creating an Orwellian work environment.

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Which of the following is an argument against creating a "locked-down" work environment?

A) Vicarious liability can have serious implications for the employer.
B) Cyberliability can have serious implications for the employer.
C) Employee turnover tends not to affect the company financially.
D) Employees who resent being constrained might leave the company.

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Discuss vicarious liability and cyberliability.List the top categories of litigation in cyberliability.

The new capability of _____ has blurred the concept of employees being "at work."

Explain how packet-sniffing software and keystroke loggers can be used to monitor employees at the workplace.

Cyberliability applies the existing legal concept of liability to the field of computers.

Cyberliability:

The extranet is a part of a company's website which can only be accessed by its senior executives.

Information can be sent over fiber-optic cables only after it has been _____.

Companies can now make vast amounts of information available to employees and customers on their Internet,intranet,and extranet sites.

The _____ is a private piece of a company's network that is made available to customers or vendor partners using secured access with a unique password.

Emily,a website designer,is hired by an organization to create an internal website that contains information meant to be accessed solely by employees.This website is the company's _____.

When jobs are plentiful and an employee would have no difficulty finding another position,then the consent given to the monitoring policy of a company is referred to as thin consent.

Because of the changes that telecommuting has introduced into the work environment:

Jordan,a software engineer,is responsible for maintaining the private piece of his company's internet network that is accessible to clients by means of a unique password.This piece of the company's network is known as the _____.

Andrew is informed by his company that he should be open to monitoring as a part of the company's plans to improve productivity.Because of his qualifications and work experience,he knows that he would have no difficulty finding a similar position in another company.Andrew agrees to the policy,knowing that he can switch jobs if the new policy affects his job satisfaction.He has given his company _____ consent.

_____ is a legal concept that holds employers liable for the actions of their employees in their Internet communications to the same degree as if those employers had written those communications on company letterhead.

From an employer's perspective,monitoring an employee's computer activity at the workplace is necessary to map their productivity.

Vicarious liability is a legal concept that means a party may be held responsible for injury or damage only if he or she were actively involved in an incident.

According to Adam Moore,if jobs are plentiful and an employee would have no difficulty in finding another position,then the consent given to a company's monitoring policy is _____ consent.