Dan Cooper, Helena Milner-Smith, and Jiayen Ong of Covington and Burling write: On October 12, 2022, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) opened a public consultation seeking feedback on the draft guidance document on employment practices, specifically relating to monitoring at work (the “Monitoring at Work Guidance”). The guidance aims to provide practical guidance and…
Category: Workplace
EDPB: Safety of property can be a legitimate interest for GPS tracking, but the measure must be appropriate and necessary
The EDPB has posted a decision by Slovenia’s data protection regulator: Background information Date of final decision: 04 October 2022 Controller: employer in private sector Legal Reference: National Law (Personal Data Protection Act), Article 5.1(c) and 6.1(f) of the GDPR Decision: Order to comply Key words: GPS tracking Summary of the Decision Origin of the…
Equifax surveilled 1,000 remote workers, fired 24 found juggling two jobs
Ashley Belanger reports: Hundreds of thousands of Americans juggled two full-time jobs in September, and nearly 4 million more mixed full-time with part-time work, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. This “overemployment” trend has become so popular through the pandemic that Wired reported that some workers described holding down two jobs as the cure to burnout experienced from…
“Don’t spy on a privacy lab” (and other career advice for university provosts)
Cory Doctorow writes: This is a wild and hopeful story: grad students at Northeastern successfully pushed back against invasive digital surveillance in their workplace, through solidarity, fearlessness, and the bright light of publicity. It’s a tale of hand-to-hand, victorious combat with the “shitty technology adoption curve.” What’s the “shitty tech adoption curve?” It’s the process…