The prediction, in brief:

Employees will be asked to give up their privacy rights when they are hired – and … most people will do so, in exchange for a job.

Predictor: Shipman, Noel

Prediction, in context:

In their 1995 book “The Right to Privacy,” Caroline Kennedy and Ellen Alderman write:”Noel Shipman accepts the value of the policy approach, but for him it raises a new set of problems. Why should the employer, who already calls the shots, get to draw the line wherever it decides? Shipman is concerned that employees will be asked to give up their privacy rights when they are hired – and that most people will do so, in exchange for a job. ‘If you sign a waiver saying, “I agree you can spy on me,” and you exchange that for a salary, you’re working for a Nazi, but there you go. You’ve sold your right to privacy,’ says Shipman. The problem is compounded by the fact that often workers have no real choice and are not compensated for the rights they sign away.”

Date of prediction: January 1, 1995

Topic of prediction: Controversial Issues

Subtopic: Privacy/Surveillance

Name of publication: The Right to Privacy

Title, headline, chapter name: Shoars v. Epson American Inc. High-Tech Monitoring

Quote Type: Paraphrase

Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Pages 315, 316

This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Vellucci, Amanda