All of us have different ideas about privacy that might apply to these practices. Ask 1,000 people to define privacy, and you’ll get 1,000 definitions. Privacy is personal, it’s cultural, and means different things to different people and societies. Privacy can be:
- our ability to control access to our personal information and activities.
- having the freedom to conceal aspects of ourselves from others.
- the individual freedom to choose what things we are willing to share and with whom we share them.
Regulations
The online processing of employee-related data expands previous, paper-based, opportunities to access and exploit employee information. Here are some regulations that are relevant to privacy at UCANR:
- California Public Records Act
- California Information Practices Act
- Data security breach reporting requirement for agencies in California: California Civil Code Section 1798.29(a)
- Confidentiality of Social Security Numbers: California Civil Code Section 1798.85