Author Retains CopyrightRodriguez, Laura2016-10-192022-07-072016-10-192022-07-0720162016https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/handle/123456789/19511This paper explores the issues that arise from the surveillance of digital communications at the workplace and how New Zealand has addressed these issues. To achieve that purpose, this paper explores the two prevalent approaches to privacy rights at the workplace: The ownership of the resources (Anglo-American) and the continental Dignity-based (Europe). New Zealand has aligned itself with the Anglo American approach. This approach is less protective of employee’s privacy interests. This paper shall demonstrate that the legal protection of employees from electronic monitoring would be greatly improved by deriving those protections from "human dignity”.pdfen-NZhttps://www.wgtn.ac.nz/library/about-us/policies-and-strategies/copyright-for-the-researcharchivePrivacy at workplaceElectronic surveillanceEmailElectronic Surveillance at the workplacePrivacy Act 1993Surveillance of email and Internet at the workplaceDignity and the link with privacy rights at the workplaceTextAll rights, except those explicitly waived, are held by the Author