All Eyes On You: Privacy in the Workplace — A Review of the Law and Recent Developments

Author: Kristen Woo, Fiona H. McFarlane, and Matthew Larson
Current to: September 2020

This paper from CLEBC Online Course Materials, prepared by Kristen Woo and Matthew Larsen of Fasken and Fiona H. McFarlane of Kent Employment Law, discusses the following topics, with a focus on provincial private‐sector privacy laws in British Columbia:

• evolution of the reasonable expectation of privacy
• the tort of intrusion upon seclusion
• the tort of “publicity which places a person in a false light”
• employee surveillance and monitoring, and
• privacy and the admissibility in litigation of evidence obtained in contravention of an individual’s privacy rights.