Monitoring Beyond the Company Gates: Government Surveillance


In an effort to fight crime that has mushroomed as a result of the Internet, governments have increased their surveillance efforts to include the workplace. Government surveillance has, for a long time, relied on wiretaps where governments required telephone companies to build in surveillance capabilities into the phone system. But the advent of the Internet has made reliance on wiretaps more difficult and has presented more technical and legal problems for law enforcement agencies.

To overcome these new problems, governments and law enforcement agencies are now seeking building in capabilities that will make it easy to deal with high speed Internet data stream services through cable and DSL and voice over IP (VoIP) that, so far, have no standards in place for eavesdropping.

To deal with the growing international crime syndicates that are finding their way onto the Internet and the threat resulting from growing global terrorism, governments have joined hands to set electronic eavesdropping networks like ECHELON, a joint venture among the U.S.A., Canada, United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia, that uses communication stations all over the world to capture all satellite, microwave, cellular, and fibre- optic communication worldwide (American Civil Liberties Union, 2001).




Electronic Monitoring in the Workplace. Controversies and Solutions
Electronic Monitoring in the Workplace: Controversies and Solutions
ISBN: 1591404568
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 161

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