Businesses in the UK, including U.S. firms with branch offices there, may soon face limits on their ability to monitor employee Web surfing and e-mail activity under a new privacy code due to be released by a government body in the next two months.
The UK privacy protections also illustrate the sharp difference in privacy approaches that exist between the U.S. and European nations, many of which have stringent privacy rules.
The code, which sets out workplace privacy rights, will call for employers to spell out their monitoring policies to employees and conduct monitoring that is "proportionate" to the risk posed by the employee activity.
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