rule of confidentiality consistent with the performance of their duties and the principles in this code. 5.13. Workers may not their privacy rights. Global Network Initiative The Initiative (please see Annex) aims at encouraging the protection of freedom of expression and privacy in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector. Global Network Initiative - Participating companies will employ protections with respect to personal information in all countries where they operate in order to protect the privacy rights of users. - Participating companies will respect and protect the privacy rights of users when confronted with government demands, laws or regulations that compromise privacy in a manner inconsistent with internationally recognised laws and standards. 3.3.2. Domestic standards Protection from Harassment Act 1997 The Protection from Harassment Act 1997 is designed to protect individuals from harassment and similar conduct. It makes it an offence to carry out a course of conduct that causes harassment, including in the workplace. It does not define harassment, although it makes clear that alarming a person or causing a person distress may constitute harassment. It also creates an offence of putting people in fear of violence being used against them. The Act would include situations where one employee, in the scope of his or her employment, harasses another employee. In such cases the employer will be held vicariously liable for that harassment if a sufficiently clear link can be established between the work and the harassment that allegedly occurred. Data Protection Act (1998) The Data Protection Act (DPA) governs the use of personal information by businesses and organisations. The Act defines eight data protection principles and establishes a number of legal obligations to protect information and the right to privacy of the employees. The DPA sets up a regime to regulate
rule of confidentiality consistent with the performance of their duties and the principles in this code. 5.13. Workers may not their privacy rights. Global Network Initiative The Initiative (please see Annex) aims at encouraging the protection of freedom of expression and privacy in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector. Global Network Initiative - Participating companies will employ protections with respect to personal information in all countries where they operate in order to protect the privacy rights of users. - Participating companies will respect and protect the privacy rights of users when confronted with government demands, laws or regulations that compromise privacy in a manner inconsistent with internationally recognised laws and standards. 3.3.2. Domestic standards Protection from Harassment Act 1997 The Protection from Harassment Act 1997 is designed to protect individuals from harassment and similar conduct. It makes it an offence to carry out a course of conduct that causes harassment, including in the workplace. It does not define harassment, although it makes clear that alarming a person or causing a person distress may constitute harassment. It also creates an offence of putting people in fear of violence being used against them. The Act would include situations where one employee, in the scope of his or her employment, harasses another employee. In such cases the employer will be held vicariously liable for that harassment if a sufficiently clear link can be established between the work and the harassment that allegedly occurred. Data Protection Act (1998) The Data Protection Act (DPA) governs the use of personal information by businesses and organisations. The Act defines eight data protection principles and establishes a number of legal obligations to protect information and the right to privacy of the employees. The DPA sets up a regime to regulate
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