SURVEILLANCE

IS YOUR BOSS GAZING YOUR EMAIL? - Recent technology allows your boss to hack into your system or have anyone's mail rerouted through him/her.

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• Ask your employer whether your company has an email or privacy policy. If it does, review the policy carefully. - Generally, an employee's right to privacy is trumped by an employer's business interests. Although the law is on the employer's side, you can protect yourself by

keeping these three tips in mind: Know your rights.  (Source Web Girls press here See article Office Email and Privacy By Jennifer Hampton).
• Feb 2, 2000 - `Big Brother' series a cross between `Real World,' (press here) `Truman Show' SF GATE NEWS CBS won a bidding war to adapt a Dutch series, ``Big Brother,'' for American television. The house will start with nine or 10 people who will be whittled down, week by week, in a vote by viewers. At the series' end, viewers decide which character they like best, and the winner gets a cash prize.
• September 30, 1999 - The Coming Surveillance Tsunami by Alex Lightman Surveillance  (press here). Enjoy your one-sided watching while you can because the same Internet that you use to look at the world, with almost God-like omniscience, is about to turn its all-seeing, never-forgetting capacity to focus millions of increasingly wireless cameras onto you. And, like the Terminator, it absolutely will not stop, ever.
• Septmber 21, 1999- We Know What You Did Last Fall (press here) by Chris Oakes.  A software utility that secretly records computer activity in alarming detail counts some high-profile corporations and government agencies among its clients. But not a one wants to talk about how they're using Investigator to monitor workers.
• October 29, 1999 Bandwidth Bandits Beware:Big Brother Is Watching "... companies are using new software which can easily track down what you did on the Internet, when you did it and how long you did it for. Employers say the software is necessary because Internet abuse by workers is costing them time and money.// A growing number of companies is  monitoring workers' e-mail and Web habits By David Armstrong   Think those jokes your friends e-mail you at work  are funny? Your boss may not be laughing.
• Oct. 21, 1999 To Catch a Thief - By Judy Muller ABCNEWS.com   —Professors' New Web Site Spots Cheating - Some college students have been going online to plagiarize their term papers. But now college professors are taking to cyberspace to catch them (press here).