Wednesday, July 16, 2003

Workplace Privacy in Argentina

July 2003. Two recent Spanish cases have decided that workers have a right to privacy in their email.

Similar judicial decisions by of the Court of Appeals of Buenos Aires addresed the issue of privacy in the workplace in the same manner.

Sunday, July 13, 2003

Argentina

Big Brother is coming to Argentina: On July 13, 2003 another data scandal occurred. One of the most important newspaper in Argentina, diario Clarin, reported that the government was planning to gather in a database all the information available in different databases in the public administration. At the same time the government was planning to renovate and issue new i.d. for all the citizens and to homologue the databse with the FBI.

See
http://www.ulpiano.com/dataprotection_clarin.pdf
http://www.protecciondedatos.com.ar/prensa.htm#clarin1