The U.K. is doing this and now the U.S. is following suit, you know chipping our children by implanting RFID chips in their school uniforms. I really don’t like this concept for today or for the future….
Day: 19 June 2008
Sweden approves wiretapping laws
This development I have been watching with interest for some time, and they finally did it Sweden’s parliament has approved controversial new laws allowing authorities to spy on cross-border e-mail and telephone traffic. An interesting development in Sweden of all places. Read more….
A right to privacy in the workplace?
Greenville County employees have “no expectation of privacy” on county computers and may be monitored if there is reason to suspect misuse, a policy that underscores what many employees ignore but may now be thinking: The boss is watching. In fact the ‘expectation’ of no privacy in the workplace is normal in the U.S. If any of my blog readers are U.S. residents, then please correct me if you feel that this statement is wrong.
In the E.U. there are in most countries laws in place that protect the privacy of the individual, however these do not extend to the workplace that is seen as a private network. A couple of countries have enacted some laws protecting the privacy of employees, but it is not uniformly applied. Although in the E.U. it is implied that employees have a right to privacy, this right is not -in general- enforced. It is an interesting area. Should we have a right to privacy in the workplace?