In the increasingly global economy and workplace, the difference in workplace privacy expectations and protections in the United States and Europe stand out. In the United States, privacy protections depend on whether employees have reasonable privacy expectations, but employers are relatively free to destroy actual expectations through notices. In Europe, workplace privacy is not conditioned on employee privacy expectations, but is protected as a matter of public policy. Thus, in Europe - where reasonable privacy expectations are not a condition to privacy protection - employees can actually...
In the increasingly global economy and workplace, the difference in workplace privacy expectations and protections in the United States and Europe sta...