The Worker’s privacy and the electronic control

DOI: 10.5176/2251-2853_2.1.48

Authors: Teresa Coelho Moreira

Abstract:

The use of information technology in the workplace has grown exponentially and surveillance and monitoring have become contentious issues in the modern workplace. The growth of information and surveillance technologies, closed-circuit television and video surveillance, biometrics, genetic and drug testing, monitoring employees location by GPS in their cars or even with the resource to RFID’s technology, medical exams and information for hiring or retaining an employee and ownership of personal information have raised unprecedented concerns about privacy.

Keywords: privacy, NICT, electronic control, surveillance and monitoring