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) 1.2: 1.2 Monitor only in line with data protection law, with a clear purpose and the least intrusive means

Data protection law does not ban monitoring workers, but it must be done compliantly: the employer should weigh its business interests against workers' rights and freedoms, must be clear about the purpose and must choose the least intrusive way to achieve it; that a monitoring tool exists does not make it the right means. The right to private and family life (HRA 1998, Art. 8) weighs more heavily for home working, where expectations of privacy are higher and family life is more likely to be captured. The ICO's example: webcam checks on remote staff to catch late starters are disproportionate when log-on times would show the same.

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