Data protection for employers – rights and obligations

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In general, companies can collect employees´ personal data. A prerequisite for the lawful processing of non-sensitive personal data is that it does not infringe an employee´s legitimate interest in the confidentiality of the data. This condition is met if there is an explicit legal authorisation or duty to carry out the processing and the data subject has expressly agreed to, or has a vital interest in, such processing. 

Read the article in the ILO Newsletter here, published December 1, 2010.

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