Tag archives: employee privacy

Covert monitoring in the workplace – impact on an employee’s privacy

By Amanda Sanders (UK) on November 8, 2019 Posted in Dispute resolution and litigation, General

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The Grand Chamber of the ECHR held that Spanish shop workers’ right to privacy under Article 8(1) of the ECHR was not violated when their employer obtained evidence of theft from covert CCTV footage of the employees.… Continue reading

Dutch DPA: Employers May Not Process Employee Health Data From Wearables

By Nikolai de Koning and Floortje Nagelkerke (NL) on March 15, 2016 Posted in Compliance and risk management, Regulatory response

The Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, the “AP”) announced on March 8, 2016, that two companies agreed to stop processing employees’ personal health data after the AP initiated an investigation into the employers’ practices. The two companies provided their employees with wearable devices (or “wearables”), which allowed the companies to track their employees’ physical … Continue reading

European Court of Human Rights: Private messages at work may be read by employers

By on January 14, 2016 Posted in General

On January 12, 2015, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that an employer in Romania did not breach its employee’s privacy rights by monitoring and reading the employee’s instant messages (Case of Barbulescu v. Romania; application no. 61496/08). Our Global Workplace Insider blog also reported on the decision.… Continue reading

NLRB asserts employers must bargain with unions on breach response

By on April 29, 2015 Posted in Compliance and risk management, Data breach, General, Regulatory response

The U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently filed complaints against the United States Postal Service (USPS), alleging that the USPS violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by failing to collectively bargain with its employees’ union regarding the postal service’s response to a 2014 data breach that reportedly affected over 800,000 current and former … Continue reading

Employee privacy regulations on the agenda for Abu Dhabi Global Market

By on January 29, 2015 Posted in General

Omnibus data privacy laws are few and far between in the Middle East. None of the six states of the Gulf Co-Operation Council (GCC)—which comprises Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates—have issued national privacy legislation, although several have draft regulations under consideration. By contrast, the financial “free zone” jurisdictions of … Continue reading