Protection of Employees’ Personal Information under Workplace Surveillance

Personal Information Privacy Protection in E-Commerce

Today, the world are moving towards e-commerce application in completing their daily jobs. An ecommerce application becomes the preferred medium to complete the day’s tasks. Electronic commerce or ecommerce is a potentially growing business for today’s market. Basically, online shopping eliminates conventional purchase approach which is labor-intensive and time-consuming. Through cyber space, o...

The Distinction between "Privacy" and "Personal Information" - Issues of Personal Information Protection Act in Japan

It seems that the relation of the concept of privacy and the concept of the personal information are misunderstood. The privacy comes from the personality, and it is a normative concept. On the other hand, personal information is a fact about each individual. In Japan, Privacy protection is often confused with personal data protection when talking about the Internet. But the leakage of personal...

Management Information or Trompe L'Oeil? Resistance to Workplace Surveillance

Management information generated by workflow information systems is often used for planning, costing, decision making and other management activities. By application of the principles of Grounded Theory, this paper summarises studies of acceptance of workflow systems and finds that user resistance is manifest in many forms. The paper also finds that previous divisions of this resistance are sim...

A refresher on privacy: your obligations under the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004.

Professional Commitment of Information Technology Employees under Depression Environments

This study aims at to what extent the professional commitment of IT staff being affected by the amount of work stress and job satisfaction under the environment of economic downturn, as well as professional jobs IT staff being directly affected by work stress and job satisfaction that is the willingness of taking IT profession as their permanent career. According to the 280 effective questionna...