The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) recently issued guidance for employers on the issues they need to bear in mind when considering the introduction of testing as part of their arrangements for returning staff to the...more
5/26/2020
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Employee Privacy Rights ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
New Guidance ,
Re-Opening Guidelines ,
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UK ICO ,
Virus Testing ,
Workplace Safety
In WM Morrisons Supermarkets plc v Various Claimants the Supreme Court today issued an important judgment clarifying the scope of vicarious liability of employers for the wrongful acts of their employees: Morrisons was found...more
A recent High Court decision concerning compliance with a data subject access request considered the basis upon which an individual can require the data controller to provide the names of those in receipt of his or her...more
5/25/2019
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Civil Conspiracy ,
Compliance ,
Covered Recipients ,
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Expert Witness ,
Fraud ,
Information Sources ,
Order To Compel ,
Personal Data ,
Redacted Documents ,
Trial Court Orders ,
UK ,
UK Data Protection Act
A data subject (defined in the GDPR as an identified or identifiable natural person) has a right under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to make a data subject access request (DSAR) to find out what personal data...more
12/4/2018
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Data Controller ,
Data Subject Access Requests ,
Discovery ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
EU ,
Exceptions ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) ,
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Redaction ,
Scope of Discovery Requests ,
Third-Party ,
UK Data Protection Act
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) held in Barbulescu v Romania (Application no. 61496/08) last week that there was a breach of the right to privacy where an employer searched the contents of an...more
9/14/2017
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Article 8 ,
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Investigatory Powers Act 2016 ,
Notice Requirements ,
Right to Privacy ,
UK ,
UK Data Protection Act ,
Wrongful Termination
This OnPoint reports on the Court of Appeal judgment in Dawson-Damer & Ors v Taylor Wessing LLP, handed down on 16 February 2017, which addresses two key aspects of the legislation enabling individuals to lodge subject access...more
Under section 7 of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) employees are entitled to make a data “subject access request” (SAR) in order to obtain copies of the personal data held about them by their employer and certain other...more
Last week the European Court of Human Rights held in Barbulescu v Romania (Application no. 61496/08) that there was no breach of the right to privacy where an employer searched the contents of an employee's instant messaging...more
Dealing with a subject access request (SAR), whether or not the person making the request is an employee, can be very time consuming. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued a Code of Practice in August 2013 on...more