Protection of Employees’ Personal Information and Privacy [PDF ebook] 

It is easy today e E ‘ and it will be more so in the future e E ‘ for employers to acquire, store, and transfer employeese E — personal information through electronic devices. Accordingly, employee privacy has become a keen legal issue among developed countries in recent years. All agree that there should be effective legal measures to protect employees from improper collection and/or use of their personal information while still paying due consideration to employerse E — valid business necessities. Some countries have tackled this issue with special legislation, while others have relied primarily on constitutional law or tort law.