..."The internet, in its most basic definition, is a giant network of communications. Millions upon billions of people, all broadcasting information to each other. The internet, and computers in general, have come to dominate life in the modern age. We use it to work, to shop, to learn, to debate, to entertain, and the list goes on and on and on. The internet is also currently the world’s largest and fastest growing public forum, a place to hear and to be heard. Any communication made in a public forum is protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids Congress from “abridging the freedom of speech.†However, the Supreme Court has declared, in cases such as Miller v. California and Dennis v. United States, that certain forms of speech, such as obscenities and overt threats, are not protected by the “free-speech†umbrella and are thus not legal. Certainly the same rules apply to the internet. So should the government monitor the internet for these abuses? While the most immediate answer would be “no,†I am not sure it is the correct one. Government should monitor the internet and e-mails, but only for explicit criminal...
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...expect to have privacy in the workplace. Employees are deemed not to have “a reasonable expectation of privacy”. Employees are expected to follow guidelines and regulations regarding usage of workplace computers, telephones, cell phones, pagers, email and internet. These are often times found in the employee handbook and manuals managed by HR. In the private sector, privacy law is determined by the variety of state and federal statutes and the common law of torts (Halbert and Ingulli, pg. 74). Employees may file a claim based on “intrusion” of privacy but must prove that the electronic surveillance was highly obnoxiousness and intrusive and that the reasons for retrieval was irrelevant to the employee’s job. Government employees may argue that electronic surveillance and monitoring violate their Fourth Amendment right to “reasonable expectations of privacy”. These cases are often time judged by the balance test which weighs the importance of the employee’s privacy against the employer’s interest. An example of this is correctional facilities performing body and bag checks on their employees before they enter the facility. The safety of the inmates and the employees at the correctional facilities is of more importance than that of an individual’s need for privacy. Social media such as Face book has begun to play a role in the business world also. Many employees assume that their pages on these sites are their private business. Employers are adding clauses to personnel...
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...Monitoring Employees on Networks LC Johnson IT/205 June 06, 2012 Monitoring Employees on Networks When a person goes to work for an individual or company, they make an agreement to give his or her attention to the task or requirement of that job. Under that agreement, many say that anything less than that agreement is “stealing”. The topic of monitoring employees’ use of the internet for personal use on the job is a relatively important topic especially to the employers. This is of importance to the employers for the fact that they are the ones who lose in this scenario. In addition to the networks, becoming clogged with the use of non-work related activity the company will not have the full benefit of that particular employee because of his or her actions or lack of in this case. E-mails are beneficial to cooperation for the convenience of filling out forms and transferring information to other companies. In addition to communication within the company rather from employer to employees or from employee to employee, this is a vital component of the cooperation’s productivity. An employer may want to limit the use of personal internet access during work hours. The company will become liable if there is information, not beneficial to the company’s name, getting into circulation via social networking sites such as youtube, myspace, etc. There are benefits to having e-mail, search engines, and instant messaging such as the benefits of saving on paper documents or...
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...management, Universiti Sains, Malaysia. Accepted 15 June, 2011 The main purpose of this study was to explore the degree of university residence hall students’ preferences for some facilities and amenities. With a case study of a developing country, this paper also aimed to determine whether the mean score of these preferences differed significantly with regard to students’ gender, nationality, race and study level. Structured questionnaires were administrated to 850 residence hall students, and 752 questionnaires were usable out of these numbers. The result of the study indicated that free internet access, lockable storage space and mirror inside student’s room, water machine and variety of food in food stall were the 5 most preferred facilities in the residence halls. Additionally, this study highlighted the importance of some specific facilities such as kitchen, laundry monitoring system and 24 h available taxi from students’ perspective. It was found that students had a great interest to these facilities as well. The research further uncovered a significant difference among male and female students, race and study level on their degree of preferences. Undergraduates, Chinese, and female students reported greatest preferences for all types of facilities and amenities. No significant difference was found in the preference mean scores of students from different nationalities. Key...
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...Abstract This paper will explain why employers monitor their employees in the workplace and what are the recent devices and programs used in the monitoring process. The paper will examine also the effects of the surveillance on the employees’ psychological health and their rights to privacy. Nowadays, the negative effects of surveillance must be discussed and solved. In addition, a solution is given to ease the controversy between the employer’s work protection and the employees’ privacy rights. Last, the paper gives ways to let the employers know how to deal with their staffs at work without restricting them. Introduction The flow of information and the rapid speed of technologies lead to the trend of globalization. Globalization...
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...government Internet surveillance efforts threaten privacy and civil rights. It is a basic human right to allow someone to keep something secret to oneself. We owe no explanation or clarification to anyone for our private matters. With the governments increasing efforts in Internet surveillance this basic right is violated. It is as if we have become completely transparent to people we know nothing about ourselves. New technological tools are vulnerable to exploitation by governments aiming to crush dissent and deny human rights. All governments struggle to balance a need to deal with serious issues such as security, hate speech and child safety for their citizens but in repressive societies, these concerns often serve as convenient pretext to engage in censorship or surveillance of the internet that violates the rights and privacy of users and threatens the free flow of information. We all are aware that he internet and other communication technologies have created a vast amount of opportunities to share information, opening-up paths for pro democracy groups, activists, journalists and individuals around the world to share their opinion and judgment on various policies made by their respective government. I understand why monitoring people’s activity may seem as the right thing to do to ensure security but it is not of utmost importance; there are various other problems that need to be fixed at grass-root levels rather than monitoring people’s activity over the internet and in...
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...are satisfied? Are they more pleased with your company this year than they were last year? How does customer satisfaction of your customers compare that of your competitors? Does this affect your company’s profits? In order to answer these questions, you need hard data. You can do this by measuring and monitoring customer satisfaction on a regular basis. Customer satisfaction is linked to profitability. Keeping your customers happy will keep them loyal and if they are loyal they will buy more and refer your company to other customers. “Customer satisfaction is one of the strongest indicators of customer loyalty” (Lean Consulting Inc.) A study has shown the connection between a company’s profits and customer satisfaction. * “It’s six to seven times more expensive to gain a new customer than it is to retain an existing customer.” * “A 5% increase in customer retention can increase profits by 25% to 95%.” (Reichheld, 1993) There are many different practices to measuring customer satisfaction. Some of the best practices used are comment cards and formal surveys, focus groups, direct customer contact, field intelligence, studying complaints, and monitoring the internet. Depending on the industry, some work better than others. Customer cards and surveys work better in the retail industry. They can work well in finding out how each transaction went or how the company is doing as a whole, which takes us to the two types of surveys: transactional and relationship surveys...
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...Abstract This paper discusses the importance of MIS in the decision-making of commercial banks in Butembo city. The discussion starts with the review of literatures on the importance of MIS in our world today. The qualitative method of research is applied where; some bank managers were interviewed to collect data. The findings reveal that commercial banks in Butembo city are integrating technology in their daily activities. Mangers do use information systems in making every day decision at their level. Since all the banks in Butembo city are branches that does not need to make high-level strategic decisions. Therefore, the integration of MIS in high-level decision-making is done at the higher level (head office) from the information provided at the lower levels (that is branches like Butembo). However, the banks do share real-time information among branches and the head office. Introduction The history of Management Information System (MIS) starts since long. In 1968, Michael S. Scott Morton wrote a research paper in which he emphasizes the use and emergence of MIS in future. He emphasizes that the future companies will be affected by two things technology and the human comprehension and understanding of decision-making process. According to Morton (1968), it is not only about the emerging of new technologies rather how man will use the information from technology to make decisions. He predicted that in future organizational decisions will...
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...Information Technology (IT) and E-commerce have been on a constant up-rise, over the past couple of decades. Many organizations have found ways to grow and remain profitable, by creating a good mixture of e-commerce and IT. E-commerce can cover a range of areas, but focus mainly on internet sales and product marketing; while IT teams can handle any and all aspects of the organizations network. Security is becoming more important to organizations, as various attacks are on a rise. Natural disasters, malicious attacks, internal breach, and loss of team members, are all good cause to maintain strong security monitoring systems. The paper that follows will address security monitoring systems that should be conducted in the Cellular Phone Organization (CPO) with both Internal IT and e-commerce applications. Network Security Systems Organizations must have a secure network, in order to stay in business. There are many types of variations of ways to secure the network of an organization, and each must cater the type of business. The internal network is comprised of all servers, applications, data, and equipment used within the organization. The security of the internal network must consist of a mixture of both hardware and software. The Cellular Phone Organization employs 150 associates in an appropriate sized building. There are three teams: Customer Care; Tech Support: and Sales. There is also a Human Resources Team and Management team, for perspective departments. The company...
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...measure of advancements in the last few decades. Information technology has become a large part of our daily lives from educational uses to entertainment and communication. With the continued advances in technology, new ethical issues arose and created a need for new laws and regulations. The following paper will discuss two separate acts, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA). Health information technology (IT) is a frequently used system that has improved the quality of health care while preventing medical errors, decreasing paperwork, and reducing healthcare cost just to name a few important aspects. “It is imperative that the privacy and security of electronic health information be ensured as this information is maintained and transmitted electronically” (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1996). Health IT includes the use of computer software to store important health information for patients and gives the ability to share within a secure system. The importance of protection and laws was necessary with this new form of technology because of the ethical issue of possibly placing personal health information into the wrong hands. HIPAA was enacted in 1996 by Congress to ensure security and privacy of patient’s health information because of the new advances in health information technology. Due to the use of electronic filing and frequented transactions between health care services...
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...Censorship of the Internet – a detriment or a necessity? Kelly Chan A research paper for Matthew Mansour in response to: Throughout the world there has been an increase in discussions regarding “Censorship of the Internet, explain how Censorship can work in some instances but in others it can be a detriment to society. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 INTRODUCTION 2.0 What is Censorship? 3.1 Self Censorship 3.2 Censorship as Protection 1.0 Introduction The Internet has undoubtedly developed into the biggest source of global information and media since its modest inception in the late 1960’s. With the increasing ease of worldwide access due to cheaper methods of producing technology and education, bridging the digital divide. However, Government censorship and regulation of access to certain content available on the internet in various countries has raised issues about whether it is effective, regarding each country’s purpose in imposing censorship and whether it is detrimental to the growth in knowledge and progress of society. In this research paper, the role of Censorship in society and the inherent need for appropriate regulation of different levels of access to available information, based on morals and the responsibility we have to the younger generation to protect them from unsuitable content is discussed along with the technology we have to ensure this. The varying degrees of censorship between China and Australia will also...
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...Security Monitoring Activities CMGT/442 May 21, 2012 Security Monitoring Activities Any company that considers data an asset must realize the importance of risk management. Managing risk helps a company identify vulnerabilities and allows actions to be taken to reduce or stop these vulnerabilities. Risk management is also helpful in the attainment of goals and higher profits by attempting to eliminate any risk that may cost the company extra money to rectify. This paper will discuss security monitoring activities that must be addressed for both internal information technology (IT) and electronic commerce (e-commerce) applications of an organization. The recommended course of action will also be discussed when potential risks have been identified. According to Bejtlich (2004), security monitoring is defined as the collection, analysis, and escalation of indicators and warnings to detect and respond to intrusions. Security monitoring is an important part of risk management for internal applications such as payroll, human resources, and inventory. Security monitoring should also be used in the risk management of external applications like sales and marketing. Security Monitoring Process Security monitoring should be considered and used as a routine task to monitor and analyze the use of the network. Failure to use security monitoring would indicate that an organization believes there are no credible risks to the network. This thought process could...
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...Solution | Healthcare Network Allied Telesis Healthcare Network Construction Guidebook Contents Healthcare Network Solution | Introduction Outline of a Healthcare Network Importance of the network Main requirements in designing a healthcare network Non-stop Network Network bandwidth and QoS (Quality of Service) Data capacity Network bandwidth and cost of LAN devices QoS (Quality of Service) Redundancy and proactive measures to overcome network failures Core switch redundancy Comparison of redundancy of communication Loop protection Secure and Reliable Network Security Importance of security: both physical and human factors Threats to network security Network authentication External network (Internet) connection Inter-regional cooperative healthcare network Effective use of Wireless LAN Security in Wireless LAN Install and operation of Wireless LAN Ease of Operation Critical issues for network operation SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) Measures against system failures; device failures, incorrect wiring Use of SNMP IPv6 Network Configuration Example Network configuration for hospitals with fewer than 100 beds Network configuration for hospitals with more than 100 and fewer than 200 beds Network configuration for hospitals with more than 200 beds (i) Network configuration for hospitals with more than 200 beds (ii) 3 4 4 5 7 7 7 8 9 10 10 11 12 13 13 13 14 15 19 20 21 21 22 23 23 24 24 25 26 27 28 30 32 34 2 | Healthcare Network Solution Healthcare Network...
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...government should monitor internet content but how can monitoring internet content lead to social equality that will adhere to American values? The new digital age calls for regulation because it is something that the American people-- that humanity in general, has never experienced before. In the face of this debate, it’s important to note that imminent lawless action plays an important role in protecting free speech. Under imminent lawless action, speech that incites a violation of law that is imminent and likely should not be protected by the First Amendment.The...
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...Individual Assignment: Security Monitoring Activities CMGT/442 Introduction Information Technology (IT) and E-commerce have been on a constant up-rise, over the past couple of decades. Many organizations have found ways to grow and remain profitable, by creating a good mixture of e-commerce and IT. E-commerce can cover a range of areas, but focus mainly on internet sales and product marketing; while IT teams can handle any and all aspects of the organizations network. Security is becoming more important to organizations, as various attacks are on a rise. Natural disasters, malicious attacks, internal breach, and loss of team members, are all good cause to maintain strong security monitoring systems. The paper that follows will address security monitoring systems that should be conducted in the Cellular Phone Organization (CPO) with both Internal IT and e-commerce applications. Network Security Systems Organizations must have a secure network, in order to stay in business. There are many types of variations of ways to secure the network of an organization, and each must cater the type of business. The internal network is comprised of all servers, applications, data, and equipment used within the organization. The security of the internal network must consist of a mixture of both hardware and software. The Cellular Phone Organization employs 150 associates in an appropriate sized building. There are three teams: Customer Care; Tech Support: and Sales. There is also a Human...
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