{"id":408,"date":"2018-07-20T08:06:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T08:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isquaredemo.com\/MLT\/threegraceslegal\/striking-a-balance\/"},"modified":"2018-07-20T08:06:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T08:06:24","slug":"striking-a-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isquaredemo.com\/MLT\/threegraceslegal\/blog\/striking-a-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"STRIKING A BALANCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"employee data protection \" src=\"https:\/\/isquaredemo.com\/MLT\/threegraceslegal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/gdpr.jpg\" alt=\"employee data protection \" width=\"574\" height=\"355\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Article 29 Working Party (WP29) published an assessment of the balance between legitimate interests of employers, and the reasonable privacy expectations of employees. In which it outlines the risk assessment posed by modern working practices, where new technologies enable more systematic processing of employees\u2019 personal data at work, which bring about challenges in regards to privacy and data protection.<\/p>\n<p>Processing of personal data on the use of online services and location data from a smart device, are much less visible to employees than other more traditional types such as overt CCTV cameras, yet they encapsulate our lives more so.<\/p>\n<p>Working remotely from home is more common-place nowadays, as well as during travel to and from the office, and so monitoring of activities outside of the physical working environment can take place and can potentially include monitoring of the individual in a private context. We often hear stories of the witless employee who phoned in sick, and then posted Facebook photos of their seaside day out. But it doesn&#8217;t just end there.<\/p>\n<p>More and more, employers are able to check on their staff during work time. However, it is important that the defining lines are not blurred, so that the employee&#8217;s private life is not also infringed, bearing in mind the right to a private life under Article 8 ECHR, as well as the storage of that employee&#8217;s data beyond that which is necessary, bearing in mind the right of the data subject to &#8216;be forgotten&#8217; (Vidal-Hall v Google) or \u2018erasure\u2019 under GDPR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Article 29 Working Party (WP29) published an assessment of the balance between legitimate interests of employers, and the reasonable privacy expectations of employees. 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