Employment Privacy Law in the EU Surveillance and Monitoring

Description

Computers, software and cyberspace have a huge impact on the personal and working life of people. It is therefore no surprise that with the introduction of modern information and communication technologies, the subject of privacy in the employment context has moved to the forefront. Both monitoring of internet and e-mail use at work as well as camera surveillance bear a strong impact on individual privacy. The various legal issues that are involved are covered in this book.br br This book is unique in providing the broad picture of the legal regulation of employment privacy with regard to surveillance and monitoring within the Member States of the European Union. It gives a clear and separate overview of the law of each Member State of the European Union. A comparative summary completes the picture.br br The information and insights contained in this book will be of great value for practicing lawyers, human resources managers, academics, interest groups and policy makers. For issues which are not covered in this book, we highly recommend the volume Employment privacy law in the European Union human resources and sensitive data F. Hendrickx, ed. also published in the Social Europe Series.nbsp;br