Chapter 14, Problem 1DT

Summary Introduction

To discuss:

Whether surveillance less invasive when it's a computer watching instead of a human.

Introduction:

Employee monitoring system is a technique to keep employees under surveillance and gather feedback on their working hours, number of breaks they are taking, time spent to finish a particular work, locating employee in the company premises etc. They are various computer system that helps an organization to complete such task.

Answer to Problem 1DT

Solution:

No, surveillance is not invasive, rather it would be disaster and against ethical practices of monitoring human when it's a computer watching instead of a human.

Explanation of Solution

Computers can gather data for which they are programmed to, and company can use this facility to gather any data they want. It could be anything personal such as how people are spending their time with their family and when, what people do in their free time in office, who are they meeting out of office, keeping track of the person's movement around the city or country.

These surveillance's information could breach person's privacy and might affect his or her social and personal life. So, computer are more invasive in surveillance than human.