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Email, voicemail, and privacy: What policy is ethical?

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Business people repeatedly asked Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) to recommend a policy to deal with email and voicemail. After many such requests to our organization, we attempted to construct guidelines that we could endorse. This paper outlines the guidelines that we proposed and the public reaction to them. The paper discusses the tensions inherent in a business environment, and the means of identifying ethical behavior for both companies and their employees.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1304 W. Springfield Avenue, 61801, Urbana, IL, USA

    Marsha Woodbury Ph.D.

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Dr. Woodbury is the former Chair of CPRS. Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. She is also a curriculum developer and faculty member of the Information Group of the Women’s International University (ifu) in Germany in 2000.

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Woodbury, M. Email, voicemail, and privacy: What policy is ethical?. SCI ENG ETHICS 6, 235–244 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-000-0051-x

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