Data Privacy vis-á-vis Employees
In addition to advising on conventional and routine employment law aspects, ANA Law Group’s lawyers keep up with the emerging issues in the workplace, and assist clients in handling all the legal challenges for the workplace, which includes social media, employees’ usage of employer’s IT platforms for personal needs, employee monitoring, etc.
We also advise clients on issues such as collection of employees’ sensitive personal data and the related consent requirements, transfer of employees’ personal data within or outside India, or to a parent company’s server, or to a cloud based system in case of the employees’ transfer or acquisitions or mergers, and handling and disclosure of employees’ personal data after their departure from the company.
Many companies all over the world are grappling with the situations where the employees access or store sensitive personal information on the employer provided IT platforms including, phones, laptops, desktops, etc. We regularly assist Indian as well as International clients in preparing statutory compliant company policies to guide the employees’ acceptable use of employers’ IT platforms as well as internal protocols for management, the employees’ misuse of company’s gadgets, etc. We extensively advise clients on issues relating to the company’s surveillance rights over the employees using the company provided gadgets vis-Ã -vis the employees’ privacy rights in the personal data stored or accessed through the company’s IT platforms under Indian law.
