You work for a large electronics distributor. Your job is to provide training and to be a troubleshooter and consultant for users of the company's local area network. In the past, your job has required you to spend a lot of time travelling from building to building to assist users. Now, however, you have a utility program called LANSCAPE that lets you monitor the activities of any user who is logged in. You can see exactly what is being displayed on the user's screen, and can even take over the session if you need to. Your boss tells you, in confidence, that she suspects one or more employees of dealing with illegal drugs on company premises. She has no proof but suspects that they are using the phone and maybe even the computer to make deals. She asks you to monitor the employees and to provide her with a log of all the computer activities of the suspected employees. 1. What are the ethical considerations involved?
2. What are the legal considerations with what you are being asked to do?
3. Your boss asks you to install LANSCAPE on the workstation in her office so she can randomly check on the suspects and gather evidence. What are the ethical considerations involved?
4. What are the legal considerations with installing the software on your boss’s computer?