Last week, Finland’s parliament has approved a very controversy law regarding electronic communications monitoring for data protection. The law’s name is “Lex Nokia” because the mobile telephone company Nokia asked authorities to monitor the employees’ emails suspected for revealing private information to competitors.
The case opened a huge controversy especially after the media indicated that Nokia has blackmailed the authorities threatened to leave the country if the law will not be accepted. A spokesman for Nokia said: “Nokia categorically denies making a threat to Finland…the law up till now has been problematic as it can be interpreted in many ways.” (Source)
Now that the law is accepted, employers are legitimized to track the activities of employees who are suspected of leaking company’s information, copying copyrighted resources or any other activity that might put the company at risk. Not only the law is controversy but also the people’ opinions because many of us are considering this as an attack to privacy rights. Are you thinking the same?
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Indian youngsters would surely love this idea!
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