The Data Protection Act 1998 requires that employers follow various data protection principles when handling employees’ personal data.
An employee has the right to request access information kept about him or her by the employer, including personnel files, sickness records, disciplinary or training records, appraisal or performance review notes, and emails or documents in which the employee is the focus. Such requests are known as “data subject access requests”.
Complex patchwork of rules and practices between countries is dissuading employers from implementing track and trace schemes.
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Virtual reality training can be hugely beneficial but the data captured by it must be handled with great care.
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Morrisons’ appeal against the landmark decision that it was vicariously liable for a large-scale data breach is being heard at...
The European Court of Human Rights has overturned a previous judgment it made in the case of López Ribalda and...
It's tempting to assume that artificial intelligence and machine learning can ensure HR's decisions in key areas such as recruitment and performance management are completely unbiased. But there are still vulnerabilities
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Employers could be collecting personal data from company tech.
