All tagged privacy
We have all seen the headlines reporting on employees having said or posted something on social media which is highly inappropriate resulting in discipline or termination of their employment. However, employees are not the only ones engaging in inappropriate use of social media. Employers can very easily fall into that trap as well.
A single employee was responsible for the entirety of the Desjardins data breach, carrying out an internal attack right under the company’s nose. What more can (and should) an employer do?
The recent Supreme Court of Canada decision in R v. Jarvis addressed the circumstances that give rise to a reasonable expectation of privacy. While the case directly considered whether certain recordings violated the Criminal Code, the Court’s broad analysis of when a reasonable expectation of privacy exists applies outside the criminal context, with relevance to employers.
