Protection of Employee's Right to Privacy While Using Information Technologies

• Autorzy: Daiva Petrylaitė , Gintarė Tamašauskaitė

Abstrakty

EN

The use of information technologies at workplaces is a problematic and relevant issue not only at national, but also at international level because nowadays modern technologies are an integral part of almost any activity but their use is not always based on a clear legal basis or established by legal norms. This article analyses the judicial legitimation of information technology use at workplaces concentrating on the employee's (as a subject's of personal data) right to privacy. The research is done by analyzing the problems occurring among employees and employers due to different interests, by evaluating the situation of the legal and practical implementation of information technology at workplaces, demonstrating the need of having a new technologically determined legal regulation and discussing problems that arise while exercising rights of privacy protection.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

information technologies; e-workplace; right to privacy; use of information technologies; workers' control; workers' monitoring; employee; employer

• Wydawca: Sciendo
• Czasopismo: Issues of Business and Law
• Rocznik: 2009
• Tom: 1
• Numer: 1
• Strony: 81-100

Twórcy

autor

Daiva Petrylaitė

• Faculty of Law, Vilnius University, Saulėtekio Ave. 9, LT- 10222 Vilnius, Lithuania

autor

Gintarė Tamašauskaitė

• Member of the Student's Scientific Institute of the Labour Law Department in the Faculty of Law, Vilnius University, postgraduate Saulėtekio Ave. 9, LT- 10222 Vilnius, Lithuania

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Identyfikatory

DOI

10.2478/v10088-009-0009-6