Employee Privacy Rights-Packet Sniffers

Please respond to EACH of the following discussion topics and submit them to the discussion forum as a single post. Your initial post should be 75-150 words in length. Then, make at least two thoughtful responses to your fellow students' posts. If you haven't recently, please review the Rules of Discussion.

Question A

An employee of the Triton Corporation makes a police report that his privacy rights are being violated because the IT Section of the Corporation is using packet sniffers to watch their computer activity. Discuss how you would respond to the complainant, to include, whether or not it is the right of a corporate network administrator to use packet sniffers and whether or not the employees' privacy rights are being violated.

Question B

What current events article did you read this week, and what was it about? Provide a brief summary of your article, and discuss its implications to the field of computer forensics.