Employee Privacy Rights in the Workplace Imagine you are writing a very personal email to a family member and you don't want your coworkers to know. Well, if your employer reads your email for no particular reason and one of the IT people happens to say something that they may have read about someone's personal information, then that gets disclosed. The right to privacy of employees in the workplace is a very serious problem in today's society. Employee privacy rights in the workplace should be divided into categories: who should know what and who. I agree with the adoption of a privacy law, but at the same time I agree that if the viewers themselves do not follow the rules, then they should be held responsible for the violation of privacy. Most companies today require their employees to sign something called a confidentiality statement. Act. One main thing that concerns this law on the protection of privacy and which is not said word for word is that the employer can consult everything he wants and whenever he wants that concerns you on the networks of his business. There are many reasons why this is allowed. Today's new technologies are exceptional in everything they can examine within a business. Computer programs allow the employer to watch exactly what you watch or write while you watch or write what you write. Employers are also able to obtain phone records and verify who you called, for how long, and sometimes even listen to the conversation. “Employers have not only a moral obligation but also a legal obligation to recognize certain rights of their employees.” (Arthur, 1989). With all of this in mind, employers have certain laws that they must follow in order to infringe on your privacy. Laws such as the USA Patriot Act, which states that individuals are guaranteed access to many government records about them, and that government agencies that maintain these files are prohibited from disclosing personal information unless ordered to do so of a court and in certain other limited circumstances. plays a great effect when it comes to the privacy rights of employees in the workplace and that is identity theft. Again, with new technology, identity theft can happen very quickly with electronic communications. You can view your personal files at work, while submitting the information to someone else..