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- Title
Is workplace surveillance legal in Canada?
- Authors
Levin, Avner
- Abstract
This paper reports on the results of a research project into employer practices with respect to workplace privacy, funded by the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s Contributions Program. The paper discusses the variety of privacy invasive technologies used by Canadian Employers in order to survey and monitor their workers. It then discusses the legal basis for such workplace surveillance as perceived by the employers, and concludes with an assessment whether, and under what circumstances, such surveillance is lawful in Canada.
- Subjects
CANADA; SOCIAL conditions in Canada, 1991-; WORK environment laws; ELECTRONIC monitoring in the workplace; EMPLOYEE rights; RIGHT of privacy
- Publication
International Journal of Information Security, 2007, Vol 6, Issue 5, p313
- ISSN
1615-5262
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10207-007-0026-x