UK ICO Employment Practices and Data Protection: Monitoring Workers (2023)
Data protection and monitoring workers – UK ICO Employment Practices and Data Protection: Monitoring Workers (2023)

UK ICO Employment Practices and Data Protection: Monitoring Workers (2023) 1.12(b): 1.12(b) Monitoring policies set out nature, purpose and extent, are brought to workers' attention, and match practice

Where monitoring enforces organisational rules, those rules should be clearly set out and regularly brought to workers' attention, and the policy should describe the nature, purpose and extent of monitoring; the ICO's example is an acceptable use policy linked to privacy information explaining how the rules are monitored, how the information is used and the safeguards. Workers form expectations from what actually happens, not only from policy: excessive monitoring is not made lawful by being written down, and a tolerated practice (some personal calls) cannot be policed by pointing to a policy that bans it. Blocking sites or requiring acceptance of conditions can reduce the need to monitor.

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