MONITORING OF EMPLOYEESʼ WORK EMAILS AS A MEANS OF INFORMATION SECURITY OF A POLISH ENTERPRISE

Alina VARIANYCHENKO
advocateʼs trainee (Warsaw Bar Association, Warsaw), Poland
k_inf@dduvs.in.ua

Svitlana TIUTCHENKO
Lecturer (Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs), Ukraine
ORCID iD: orcid.org/0000-0001-8480-6519
k_inf@dduvs.in.ua

UDC 331.1

DOI 10.31733/2786-491X-2021-124-133

Keywords: information security, privacy, sanctions, European Court, law, Labor Code

Abstract. In the given article, the problem information security of Polish enterprises is researched. One of the directives of the given information security is the control over the employeesʼ work emails. In the article, the legal obligations of the enterprises as for the work email monitoring and the right for personal life respect are analyzed. The issue of sanctions for confidentiality correspondence violation and the right to respect for the private life are dealt with.

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