If there is one thing the Monica Lewinsky-President Clinton affair has shown us, the Boston Globe says, it is that there are fewer and fewer boundaries between public and private life these days.
Most workers know employers can tap telephones, monitor e-mail, and count keystrokes with impunity.
Many employers spend millions on security measures that guard against piracy, hackers, corporate espionage, and the like. But whatever happens in the workplace, Globe columnist Diane E. Lewis writes, we would like to believe that once we leave the office, we are secure in our own homes. If Clinton told Lewinsky to lie, we should. But she adds that should care just as much about independent counsel Kenneth Starr's request that Lewinsky wire herself to catch Clinton in a compromising position. We should care even more about Tripp's taping of Lewinsky, Lewis said, because, in all likelihood, it violated the former intern's right to be secure in her home and free from the prying of a bitter former White House aide with ulterior motives.