Facing Off Against Employee Monitoring Requirements
Many jurisdictions have adopted legal requirements – particularly data protection laws, but also telecommunication and employment or labor laws – that indirectly regulate network monitoring activities, since monitoring typically requires the collection and tracking of IP addresses, device IDs and other data that can be linked to a particular employee’s communication devices.
The differences in these laws may impose a burden on company efforts to adopt a uniform globalized approach to cyber risk mitigation. Therefore, companies must reconcile varying laws of every jurisdiction in which they operate, to implement a uniform approach to network monitoring while complying with data protection and other laws.
Full article: US: Cyber Risk: Facing Off Against Employee Monitoring Requirements – Privacy Matters
