Week 8 Reading Comprehension Questions - JDR
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Week 8 Reading Comprehension Questions
Question 1
What are the ten privacy principles for ensuring compliance with the privacy obligations
of employees?
The ten fair information principles are:
1.
Be accountable,
2.
Identity the reason for collection,
3.
Obtain consent,
4.
Limit collection,
5.
Limit, use, disclosure, and retention,
6.
Be accurate,
7.
Provide safeguards,
8.
Be transparent,
9.
Provide individual access, and
10.Provide recourse.
Question 2
PIPA and PIPEDA seek to achieve a balance between an individual’s need for privacy
and an organization’s need to use, collect and disclose personal information in certain
circumstances. Is this balance achieved by the legislation? Explain your answer.
The legislation attempts to create balance by the reasonable person standard as
an overarching principle. The reasonable person standard outlines that a firm
must engage in the collection, use, retention, disclosure, and disposal of
personal information that a “reasonable” person would consider necessary given
the circumstances. However, this still enables the organization to impede privacy
and given they are the controller in the employer-employee relationship, they
have more power over the employee. It is important to note the privacy law is
new and it is evolving and as time goes on the balance will even out.
Question 3
What steps should organizations take before monitoring e-mail and internet usage in the
workplace? Explain your answer.
It is critical for organizations to monitor email and internet usage to prevent
breaches or the hindering of the organization’s reputation. However, employers
have a bit of a balancing act as they need to not only protect themselves but their
employee’s privacy and information. Therefore, employers should implement the
following before monitoring e-mail and internet usage in the workplace:
1.
Have a clear and detailed IT policy,
2.
Notify the employees of the policy and ensure they understand their lack
of privacy rights when using company hardware,
3.
Thoroughly explain the policy and its purpose,
4.
Outline what is and is not permitted when using company hardware,
5.
Restrict downloading abilities,
6.
Provide guidelines on social media/internet usage policy, and
7.
Outline the consequences for breaching the policy.
Question 4
Describe a situation that would justify carrying out video surveillance on an employee
based on the principles in PIPA, PIPEDA and Chap. 10. You may also wish to engage in
some research to add to your answer.
In a non-union workplace there is nothing preventing an employer from using
workplace surveillance as long as it meets the following:
1.
It is for security purposes,
2.
It is visible to the employees, and
3.
It is reasonable.
It important to note that covert surveillance is different matter and there are limits
the employers has when conducting this type of surveillance.
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