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How to balance the security need to monitor employees activities whilst respecting their rights to privacy
(10/06/2009)
Privacy is considered a human right in Europe and to this extent organisations have focused on protecting the privacy of their customers’ data. However, there’s a blurring of lines between monitoring employee’s activities to make sure that the organisation is secure, with the employees perception of a 'right to privacy'. To ensure the security of personal data, organisations have grasped the need to manage the people within the organisation by restricting the data they have access to, specif... [more]
SMEs routinely breach the Data Protection Act(08/06/2009)
According to a survey of over 500 small and medium businesses conducted by BSI, almost one in five businesses has unwittingly breached the Data Protection Act (DPA) at least once. Of these, nearly half said they had breached the Act on several occasions and an additional 18% said they were not sure whether they had or not. A ‘breach’ could refer to the illegal transfer of information to a third party, failure to hold information securely or neglect of other legal obligations. The survey prov... [more]
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