Motion
- Motion title
- Monitoring of electronic communications
- Session
- 2018-2019
- Meeting link
- Annual Congress
- Meeting date
- 27 May 2019
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- 68
- Motion text
Congress notes that staff and students in FE and HE institutions are being increasingly monitored by their management through the use of external IT companies e. g. ESafe. These third parties capture not only e-mails and web use but any document that is stored on a device plugged into a college/University machine. These files are searched for key terms and any document considered suspect is returned to human resources.
Congress believes:
that this practice is both legally questionable and intrusive
staff and students have a right to privacy
confidentiality in respect of pastoral work with students and for union casework must be respected and protected.
Congress resolves that UCU will:demand greater transparency on these practices
investigate the legality of the use of data in this way
initiate, on behalf of branches, legal or other challenges to these practices.
- Proposing body
- Yorkshire & Humberside regional committee
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Strategy and finance committee (SFC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2019/C/05-27/240/68