ed a few on similar grounds too. Such cases hardly come as a surprise: 45 percent of major U.S. companies engage in "electronic monitoring of communications and performances," according to a 1999 survey conducted by the American Management Association (Kent 2).New technologies such as e-mail and the Internet have changed the way people across the world does business and communicate. With all this new equipment, employees must remember that virtually nothing they view, write or say will be kept completely confidential....