With the advent of the information age, the individual’s right to privacy has been imperceptibly eroded. While the technologies that triggered this erosion are ubiquitous in daily life, it is arguably in the workplace that the threat appears most immediate.
Today’s globalised, digitised companies have the capability to compile extensive and instantly accessible databanks of sensitive employee information. Legislatures around the world have thus started to introduce stringent data protection regimes to safeguard the right to privacy in the workplace.
