Re: Ctrl + V
I believe that you give up your privacy rights when you enter the work place under certain circumstances. I don't feel that employers monitoring what you're doing while you're on the clock is a bad thing. After all, they are paying you, and it is their equipment. I believe that they have that right.
If you don't want your employer to see certain private aspects of your life, then perhaps you shouldn't be browsing that sort of thing while you're on the clock in a professional, public environment.
Where I feel the line should be drawn is where potential employers will search your public pages such as Facebook and blogs as a sort of pre-screening process. Also, in a survey done, 12% of employers monitored blogs and 10% monitored social networking sites. I believe that what you do outside of the workplace, as long as it isn't interfering with your ability to do your job, is not the business of your employer.
There are employers out there who do not notify their employees that they are monitoring their computer usage, and while it isn't mandated by law that they tell you, I do believe it to be wrong not to.
So, I'm on the fence in regards to employee privacy. I feel that in the workplace, it is acceptable, to a point. However, monitoring an employees activity outside of work on the computer sounds like a serious violation of privacy to me.
Source:
Employee Workplace Privacy Rights