Last year, a software package became available that allows employers to monitor their employees' Internet use. It contains a database of approximately 45,000 websites classified as productive, neutral and pricing operators based on their browsing. It identifies the most frequent users and the most popular sites and is called Little Brother. There are also programs to search emails and programs to block questionable websites, as well as installing monitoring software. Your employer can simply access your hard drive, check your cache to see where you've been online, and read your email. Meanwhile, most employees are unaware that while they are at work their activities are being monitored, which raises the question “is the use of tracking software and systems ethical”? Legally, few or all employees have little recourse; the most relevant federal law is the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 which prohibits unauthorized interception of various electronic communications, including electronic mail. This law exempts service providers from its provisions, which are commonly interpreted to include employers who provide email and Internet access. Washington, D.C.'s EPIC would have required employers to at least inform workers that they were being monitored, but failed to pass the vote from 1993 to 1995. For most employers, they need to protect the your company or organization from such controls. negligent abuse. When an employer uses a software package that sweeps office computers and deletes games installed by employees, few people will perceive such an action as an invasion of privacy. Their comfort with these types of intrusions suggests that most of them do not criticize an employer who insists that... middle of paper... the provider gives a promise of privacy and this should be respected, if on the other hand, the employer reserves the right to read email or monitor web browsing, the worker may be excluded from such terms or seek employment elsewhere. Ultimately, whether or not employees should have the right to privacy in the workplace is a question. But there are many arguments in favor of employee privacy, but there are also valid reasons why an organization simply cannot guarantee this right to its employees. These reasons consist of: financial loss and information security. The use of tracking software in systems is ethical because it serves the greater good than the general public. The principle that the needs of the many prevail over the needs of the few over those of one is the cornerstone of the ethics that governs this society. (Yerby (“Nine ethical theories that govern the world”))