Not knowing or caring about these issues may bring about loss of confidential information and lasting damage to their business reputation. In this post, you will talk about the following:
1) Think of 2 to 3 ways in which businesses may violate privacy or ethical rights without realizing it.
2) How can the violations mentioned in the previous question be avoided or minimized ?
Answer:
1. a) Employers may be monitoring or reading employees' e-mail.
b) Spamming, sending out thousands and even hundreds of thousands of unsolicited e-mails.
2. a)
According to the information provided by The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD), there is exemption.
The Ordinance provides specific exemptions from the requirements of the Ordinance. They include:
- exemptions from the requirements on subject access for certain employment related personal data; and
- exemptions from the subject access and use limitation requirements of the Ordinance where their application is likely to prejudice certain competing public or social interests, such as: security, defence and international relations; prevention or detection of crime; assessment or collection of any tax or duty; news activities; and health.
To avoid any spamming email received, public can make an "Unsubscribe Request" to the Message Sender.
If you do not wish to receive further commercial electronic messages from a particular sender, you may choose to make an "unsubscribe request" to him/her. Now, senders of commercial electronic messages are required to provide an "unsubscribe facility" in the message for their recipients to make an "unsubscribe request".
One of the most effective ways to control spam is using protective softwares known as filters. While you cannot stop people from sending out spam to you with anti-spam filters, you can stop the messages from showing up in your inbox and have them deleted automatically. Filters allow you to easily block any e-mail messages carrying specified address, domain, subject, or text from being deposited in your inbox. A number of these filtering tools are currently available on the market.
Employers may be allowed to monitor employees' Web usage or e-mail usage to make sure their computing resources are not being used inappropriately. However they must clearly write this down in a security policy and inform employees that the monitoring is being done. They should also inform employees if the data collected about them may be shared with third parties someday.
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