Privacy In The Workplace

Privacy in the Workplace is a practical guide that clearly explains your privacy compliance responsibilities and even instructs on steps to take once a breach has occurred. In addition to guidance on current employment-related privacy issues, the Second Edition goes further to provide complete coverage of your responsibilities in complying with Canadian privacy laws, with tools and tips for creating an effective data management program across all areas of your organization including sales, human resources, marketing, finance and the Board of Directors. Topics include: Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and reviews of the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) in BC and Alberta; How to avoid being accused of a privacy breach and steps to take once a breach has occurred; Protecting customer, client and supplier information; Essential information about the Personal Health Information Act (PHIA); Technology and privacy - a guide to sound online marketing practices; and Highlights of significant cases and their impact on Canadian privacy law.

In recent years, new and more intrusive surveillance technology has found its way into workplaces. New medical tests provide detailed information about workers' biology that was previously unthinkable. An increasing number of employees work under camera surveillance. At the same time, computers allow for a detailed monitoring of our interactions with machines, and all this information can be electronically stored in an easily accessible format. What is happening in our workplaces? Has the trend towards more humane workplaces been broken? From an ethical point of view, which types and degrees of surveillance are acceptable, and which are not? From a policy point of view, what methods can be used to regulate the use of surveillance technology in workplaces? These are some of the questions that have driven the research reported in this book. Written by an interdisciplinary group of researchers in Computer Ethics, Medical Ethics and Moral Philosophy, this book provides a broad overview that covers both empirical and normative aspects of workplace privacy.

"The work is a practical guide to privacy issues in the Canadian workplace. It examines all aspects of an employer’s acquisition, retention and dissemination of information about employees, while considering the competing interests at play in the employment relationship. It offers guidance to employers in establishing privacy-related policies and practices, and also serves as a valuable resource for employees who wish to challenge employer practices."--pub. desc.

The misuse of an organization's information systems by employees, whether through error or by intent, can result in leaked and corrupted data, crippled networks, lost productivity, legal problems, and public embarrassment. As organizations turn to technology to monitor employee use of network resources, they are finding themselves at odds with workers who instinctively feel their privacy is being invaded. The Visible Employee reports the results of an extensive four-year research project, covering a range of security solutions for at-risk organizations as well as the perceptions and attitudes of employees toward monitoring and surveillance. The result is a wake-up call for business owners, managers, and IT staff, as well as an eye-opening dose of reality for employees.

There is rising concern about the rights of employees, especially with respect to their rights to privacy. Contributes to the debate and will point the way toward some solutions.

Drug testing, surveillance of staff and their communications, attempts to censor the freedom of speech of employees, psychometric or personality testing, and requirements to provide intimate health information irrelevant to work in order to obtain employment or promotion are some of the dubious and perhaps illegal management practices that Toronto lawyer Craig examines in Britain, France, the US, and Canada. He describes how human rights perspectives are being transposed into employment law. US distribution is by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Color print. Business Ethics is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the single-semester business ethics course. This title includes innovative features designed to enhance student learning, including case studies, application scenarios, and links to video interviews with executives, all of which help instill in students a sense of ethical awareness and responsibility.