Case 4-3: A Glance into the Future: Your Computer Knows

I do not think that MicrosoftдЫЄs patent application should be approved by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office because the application is almost like a дЫПspyдЫќ software. It goes beyond the rights of privacy of employees. There is nothing wrong with monitoring the performance but the proposed software is already monitoring the body system of an individual, which I believe should no longer be the concern of the company. As Hugh Tomlinson, an expert on data protection law puts it, дЫПThis system involves intrusion into every single aspect of the lives of the employees. It raises very serious privacy issuesдЫќ CITATION Mos08 \l 1033 (Mostrous & Brown, 2008). 2. Do you think monitoring of employees in this way is ethical or unethical? Legal or illegal? Explain.