Abstract:
Employees in all over the world are exposed to many types of privacy-invasive monitoring
while earning a living. These include closed-circuit video monitoring, Internet monitoring
and filtering, E-mail monitoring, instant message monitoring, phone monitoring, location
monitoring, personality and psychological testing, and keystroke logging. Employers do
have an interest in monitoring in order to address security risks, sexual harassment, and to
ensure the acceptable performance of employees. However, these activities may diminish
employee morale and dignity, and increase worker stress.
Today, the workplace privacy issues are mostly combined with on-line data protection as
the whole world depends on knowledge and data. Nearly every daily routine can be carried
out through or with the help of technology. Doing this, we also contribute to the flow of
data, in particular over networks such as the internet. Everywhere we go, we leave traces
thereby making it possible for anybody interested enough to collect, organize and analyze
our personal data.
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This article is intended to critically analyze the issues that have arisen from the law and
practice governing privacy protection and security of on-line data. Indeed, it will be dealt
with the practical issues relating to privacy implementation through self-regulation and
dispute with the some human rights. The last parts of the article will draw attention to
contemporary challenges and possible suggestion for the developing countries like Sri
Lanka to develop a piece of law specially analyzing the above mentioned issues of online
data protection
