• Jijo James Indiparambil

The progressive and enlightened landmark judgment of Supreme Court of India on August, 2017 declared the Right to Privacy as a fundamental right, i.e., an intrinsic part of the Right to Life under Article 21 of Indian Constitution. However, the existing legal framework in India provides only limited protection for employee data privacy. Thus, a poignant dilemma aroused at the stark contrast between the spirit of the judgment and the bounds of employee privacy. The increasing sophistication in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) with its concurrent capacity to collect, analyze and disseminate numerous and various data along with its wide and open execution in the workplaces have introduced an urgent demand for privacy legislation in India. A consequent critical situation underlines the real threat called data protection that entire humanity encumbers to individually shoulder. This study, therefore, critically compares the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018 of European Union with the Indian Personal Data Protection Bill 2019 to understand the ideological and operational nearness and remoteness of legal framework provided to create data protection, and analyze it within the context of monitoring employees in the workplace. This comparative and analytic investigation creates an urgency to generate various programmes to help individuals clean up and cosmeticize their data personas.

Data protection, data privacy, employee monitoring, data minimization, data flows

"A Comparative Analysis of EU’s GDPR and Indian PDPB towards Data Privacy of Employees", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 4, page no.1470-1481, April-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2004399.pdf

"A Comparative Analysis of EU’s GDPR and Indian PDPB towards Data Privacy of Employees", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 4, page no. pp1470-1481, April-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2004399.pdf