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Location Surveillance By Gps: Balancing An Employer's Business Interest With Employee Privacy, Kendra Rosenberg
Location Surveillance By Gps: Balancing An Employer's Business Interest With Employee Privacy, Kendra Rosenberg
Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts
Employers are increasingly using GPS tracking devices as business tools to monitor employee movements. Recent judicial decisions have found an employer’s interest in using location surveillance on employer-owned property generally trumps an employee’s privacy interests. However, employers deciding to use GPS should be aware of the potential limitations on tracking an employee based on state constitutional, statutory, and common law rights to privacy. This Article focuses on the permissible scope of an employer’s use of GPS to track employees in the workplace.
Arrested Development: Arizona V. Gant And Article I, Section 7 Of The Washington State Constitution, Jacob R. Brown
Arrested Development: Arizona V. Gant And Article I, Section 7 Of The Washington State Constitution, Jacob R. Brown
Washington Law Review
In Arizona v. Gant, the United States Supreme Court held that the search of a vehicle incident to arrest is permissible in only two situations: (1) when the arrestee is unsecured and within reaching distance of the passenger compartment; or (2) when it is reasonable to believe that evidence relevant to the crime of arrest may be found in the vehicle. Because Gant expressed a standard more protective than that established by the Washington State Supreme Court, Gant induced a state of confusion in Washington, where it has long been maintained that article I, section 7 of the Washington …
People Can Be So Fake: A New Dimension To Privacy And Technology Scholarship, M. Ryan Calo
People Can Be So Fake: A New Dimension To Privacy And Technology Scholarship, M. Ryan Calo
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This article updates the traditional discussion of privacy and technology, focused since the days of Warren and Brandeis on the capacity of technology to manipulate information. It proposes a novel dimension to the impact of anthropomorphic or social design on privacy.
Technologies designed to imitate people-through voice, animation, and natural language-are increasingly commonplace, showing up in our cars, computers, phones, and homes. A rich literature in communications and psychology suggests that we are hardwired to react to such technology as though a person were actually present.
Social interfaces accordingly capture our attention, improve interactivity, and can free up our hands …