Discussion #3

The work place has always had problem workers. Ones who abused the time clock, took office supplies, and ones who stole out the registers. The onset of technology has further opened the door for work place deviance. First, using work computers for none work related things such as gambling, porn, and generally frowned upon activities. The technology has also brought upon us the bring your own tech to work age. Most of the honest, hard working employee is using this to keep in contact (also a new thing brought on by tech) with everyone. Via, which ever social media platform of choice or old school text message. The not so honest employee can use this technology for self gain, country gain, or to try ruin an employer. The self gain employee is the one who can use their own phone with a camera to make unauthorized copies of things to sell. They can take photos of intellectual property protected items . This information could be used to sell to a competitor. An example a photo of a new machine to make a part for a car, plane, or new technical device. The next way technology is being used in devious ways is through state sponsored spying. This is not ,James Bond level, but getting jobs in a sensitive field like naval ship building, rocket and technical jobs. For an example areas at ship yards that are considered sensitive will not allow a phone with a camera into the area. The only way it is allowed if you allow them to drill into the camera and seal it. This is no doubt do to someone being caught taking pictures of sensitive blueprints or information that is suppose to secure. This is a step to make sure that people who will bring the phones in, which now almost every phone has a camera, can not use them to take not the information. The next employee would be an angry employee who can take actual photos of the things employers do wrong and spread them out onto the internet, or stage a scene to do harm. Both of which in todays age of quick judgement could ruin a businesses hard earned reputation. Which is a very uphill battle for companies to come back from.

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