IT Security: Employees are Bigger Threat than Hackers

• Author:
• Paran Chandrasekaran

Michael Fabricant, Member of Parliament for Lichfield, is planning to introduce legislation in the House of Commons in the new parliamentary session to ban employers from monitoring staff e-mail [previously reported on the Network, 10 September 2002].

The Problem

This attempt to change the law is being introduced in the light of the increased number of employers who routinely monitor their employees’ e-mails to check whether they are being used for business or for private use.

The propos... (372 more words)

Member login

If you are a member of the Workplace Law
Network, please enter your details below

My email address
My password
Keep me logged in:
	I've forgotten my password

Protecting your data

We take data protection very seriously. We will never share your data with third parties. We process data in accordance with: the Data Protection Act 1998; the 11th edition of the British Code of Advertising, Sales Promotion and Marketing Practice; and the DMA Direct Marketing Code of Practice.