Constitutional and legal aspects of employees'' Right of privacy protection in the Russian Federation

The article examines the international legal foundations of privacy, the federal laws, including "Concerning information, information technologies and protection of information", "Concerning personal data", "Concerning commercial secrets" and others. In particular, the authors discuss whether the control of employees' activities in the offices by scanning their work e-mails, control of access to web pages viewed by employees, listening of phone conversations and so on is a violation of privacy.