Privacy by Design for Employers: An Indian Perspective

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10.2991/978-2-38476-559-1_39How to use a DOI?

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Employee Privacy Perceptions; Perceived Data Sensitivity; Employee Attitudes and Behaviours; Willingness to Disclose

Abstract

The growing employee digital surveillance and data-driven human resource management has resulted in an imbalance between the privacy of an employee and organizational effectiveness. This paper examines how Indian firms can proactively incorporate privacy protections into their workplace systems and decision-making procedures by embedding Privacy by Design (PbD) as a framework. The study places privacy in the Indian organizational and sociocultural context by referencing the country's new data protection law, the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023.

The purpose of this paper is to explore the behavioural phenomenon known as the employee privacy paradox, which refers to the discrepancy between employees’ stated privacy concerns and their actual willingness to share personal data in the workplace. Thus, this paper explores how employee attitudes and behaviours are shaped by willingness to disclose (WTD) and perceived data sensitivity (PDS), especially toward data collection methods such as biometric attendance, workplace surveillance, remote monitoring and AI-based performance analytics.

This paper further emphasizes how misalignments between employee perceptions and employer practices can erode trust, reduce engagement, and heighten legal as well as reputational risks. It argues that effective implementation of PbD requires a distinct understanding of both PDS and WTD to ensure compliance with the law along with the commitment to ethical data stewardship.

The paper contributes to contextualizing PbD in Indian workplaces through the PDS–WTD framework.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - KPrashant Singh
AU  - Suman Madan
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/04/19
TI  - Privacy by Design for Employers: An Indian Perspective
BT  - Proceedings of the Global Innovation and Technology Summit “AAROHAN 3.0”_HSS track (GITS-HSS 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 617
EP  - 624
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-559-1_39
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-559-1_39
ID  - Singh2026
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