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) 1.4(d): 1.4(d) Legitimate interests: pass the purpose, necessity and balancing tests, record a legitimate interests assessment, and respect reasonable expectations

Legitimate interests is the most flexible basis, but the employer must weigh its interests, and how necessary the monitoring is, against what workers stand to lose in rights and freedoms in the particular case, and should run the purpose, necessity and balancing tests before starting and record the result in a legitimate interests assessment. It may not be appropriate where workers would not understand or reasonably expect the monitoring or would likely object if told; expectations vary with the job (a miner expects a tracker, an office worker does not).

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