Electronic Communications in the Workplace

Processing personal data may be an incidental consequence but difficult to avoid in the day to day operations of the employment relationship. Privacy in the context of the employment relationship is not a precise term but a bundle of not very specifically defined rights and expectations. Generally the main focus of privacy rights apply to the restraint of power by the state as defined in Section 14 of the South African Constitution. It could be applied to the employee and employer relationship. The existence of other public interest may substantively reduce the scope of such privacy rights. [...

Examining the nexus between ICTs and human rights in Africa : the case of South Africa

Meeting: International Workshop on the Nexus between ICTs and Human Rights in Africa, 2-4 April, 2009, Kampala, UGThis paper provides an in-depth analysis of privacy issues in South Africa in terms of human rights legislation and the South African constitution. It also reviews the legal framework for censorship, along with issues of freedom of expression and hate speech with regards to information and communication technology (ICT)