Data Protection Considerations for Monitoring Employees

In this episode of InfoSec Insider – Talk DP, Martin Brazier, Senior Data Protection Consultant at URM, explores the challenges of maintaining data protection compliance whilst conducting workplace monitoring, particularly in light of the workforce’s ever-increasing mobility, and how these challenges can be overcome.  Martin leverages his 20+ years of experience in information management and data protection compliance to discuss: 

• The definition of workplace monitoring and recent advances in monitoring technology 

• How to establish whether workplace monitoring complies with data protection legislation, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 

• The need to demonstrate fairness and transparency 

• Objections employees are entitled to make under the GDPR 

• Whether covert monitoring and automated decision making can be compliant 

• Balancing compliance and ethics when carrying out workplace monitoring.  

Learn more about this topic: https://www.urmconsulting.com/blog/data-protection-considerations-for-monitoring-employees  

   

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