Activist: As electronic monitoring of employees grows more commonplace and invasive, we hear more and more attempted justifications of this practice by employers. Surveillance, they explain, keeps employees honest, efficient, and polite to customers. Such explanations are obviously self-serving, and so should not be taken to justify these unwarranted invasions of privacy. A questionable technique used in the activist's argument is to ["attack employers' motives instead of addressing their arguments", 'attack an argument different from that actually offered by the employers', 'insist that modern business practices meet moral standards far higher than those accepted in the past', 'make a generalization based on a sample that there is reason to believe is biased']