Watching me, watching you
13 September 2012
Legal column: a revisit to last year’s new legislation on monitoring employees’ use of e-mail and the Internet and asks how it is being interpreted
Last Autumn, a whole host of new legislation affecting the rights of employers to monitor their employees’ use of e-mail and the Internet came into force, including the Human Rights Act, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, commonly called the rip Act, and the Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practice) etc Regulations, commonly called the Lawful Business...