In a recent decision, France’s data protection authority, the CNIL, sanctioned a company for installing a CCTV employee-monitoring system without informing the employees, Proskauer’s Privacy Law Blog reports. The company was also sanctioned for disproportionately monitoring one specific employee at all times. However, according to the Hogan Lovells Chronicle of Data Protection, a French court has limited the scope of employee data protection. According to the post, “there is arguably no right to privacy to an employee’s computer-stored data unless the employee takes affirmative steps to designate the information as personal.” Meanwhile, the UK Supreme Court dismissed a South Lanarkshire Council appeal. The council had argued that disclosing equal pay requests would breach the Data Protection Act.
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