... the company/organisation. When monitoring email, ethics is taken into major consideration when identifying different points of moral view, the key elements being discussed in this report are the views of employers who monitor and believe they should monitor, and employees who feel their privacy is being violated by their employers monitoring their emails. There are various guidelines which companies have to follow in order to stick by the rules. The major legislations that have been taken into account in this report are Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), the Human Rights Act and most essentially the Data Protection Act TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1. TERMS OF REFERENCE 4 2. INTRODUCTION 5 2.1 What is Ethics? 5 2.2 Email and Ethics 5 3. PHILOSOPHICAL VIEWPOINTS 6 3.1 What is Utilitarianism? 7 3.2 What is Deontologism? 7 4. EMPLOYER/EMPLOYEE VIEW 8 4.1 Employers views 8 4.2 Employees views 9 5. UTILITARIAN THEORY APPLIED 10 6. DEONTOLOGISM THEORY APPLIED 11 7. MONITORING EMAIL LAW 12 1. Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) 12 2. Human Rights Act 13 3. Data Protection Act 14 8. CONCLUSION 14 9 BIBLIOGRAPHY 16 APPENDIX 10. GROUP ...

See this essay or coursework document in full right now