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Sunday, June 30, 2002

Workplace Monitoring Being Revisited in Canada

This is happening in Canada mostly because they have a Privacy Commissioner, a bureaucrat who needs something to do. We don't have that here so don't expect any similar thought process to taek place until monitoring practices are challenged by the unions.

globetechnology.com - Shift to more workplace privacy protection.

In sorting through the legality of workplace surveillance, many assume that employers' ownership of the computing equipment and the right to set workplace rules grant them an unfettered right to monitor employees' computer usage provided that they disclose the practice. Typically framed as a matter of reasonable expectation of privacy, the belief is that if employees are told not to expect any privacy in the workplace, they don't have any.

A closer examination of Canadian law suggests the rules for workplace surveillance are gradually shifting, however -- moving away from an assessment of the reasonable expectation of privacy toward deciding whether the surveillance itself is reasonable.

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