What Privacy? The Impact of the UK Human Rights Act 1998 on Privacy Protection in the Workplace
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Workplace privacy is generally recognised as one of the most contentious ethical issues in current debates in computer ethics. This paper will distinguish between two types of justification of privacy, namely privacy as intrinsic and instrumental value. By looking at different sources of privacy in English law, the essay will suggest that the legal protection of privacy is based on philosophical assumptions and that the intrinsic – instrumental distinction is of relevance concerning the legal protection of workplace privacy. This will be supported by an analysis of different statutory protections of privacy, notably the Data Protection Act 1998, the Regulation of Investigative Powers Act 2000 and the Human Rights Act 1998. The essay ends with a speculation about why such different and possibly irreconcilable underpinnings have found their way into English privacy law.
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