Internet Privacy

What rights to privacy do people have when using the Internet at home? Are their privacy rights limited? Do those same rights and limits exist at work?

The privacy rights of someone on the Internet at their home is a gray area. Someone should be able to look at whatever they want to look at when they are at their home and on their time. This is basically freedom of speech – not only do you have the freedom to say whatever you want to say, you should have to freedom to see and hear whatever you want to see and hear. However, it is hard to deny that some things should be monitored. What about websites that are created to expose weakness’s in the countries defense network? Should these not be monitored and anyone who wants to read and learn how to commit treason should be allowed to? What about child pornography? Should people be allowed to view not only illegal but immoral things and potentially harm a child? If there are horrible things that can be stopped just by monitoring the websites someone views and then monitoring that person when they are flagged, shouldn’t they be watched?

At work, there should not really be any privacy rights or anything like that. You are at work to work, not do personal things. If you want to do personal things or your management says you are allowed to, then you should be able to but you are at work, using their hardware or software, and they should be able to monitor what you do with it.