Protection of Employees' Personal Information and Privacy

ISBN: 9789041156082 出版年：2014 页码：274 Kluwer Law International

It is easy today è?’ and it will be more so in the future è?’ for employers to acquire, store, and transfer employeesè?— personal information through electronic devices. Accordingly, employee privacy has become a keen legal issue among developed countries in recent years. All agree that there should be effective legal measures to protect employees from improper collection and/or use of their personal information while still paying due consideration to employersè?— valid business necessities. Some countries have tackled this issue with special legislation, while others have relied primarily on constitutional law or tort law.