Data Protection and Digital Monitoring in the Workplace

  • Panel
  • Café
  • Friday 22.05 — 10:30 - 11:45

Organising Institution

Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy, University of St Andrews

International

CRISP is a collaborative initiative between the University of Stirling’s Management School, The University of St Andrews, the University of Edinburgh’s School of Social and Political Sciences and School of Law, the University of Southampton and Manchester Metropolitan University. CRISP research focuses on the political, legal, economic and social dimensions of the surveillance society. CRISP’s core aim is to generate and disseminate new knowledge about ‘information, surveillance and privacy’. CRISP is directed by Professor Charles Raab and Dr Lachlan Urquhart (University of Edinburgh), Professor Kirstie Ball (University of St Andrews), Dr Diana Miranda (University of Stirling), Professor Sally Dibb (Manchester Metropolitan University), and Professor Pete Fussey (University of Southampton).
  • Academic 2
  • Business 2
  • Policy 2
Digital employee monitoring has intensified across Europe and has known employee health, safety and wellbeing concerns. Yet the considerable variation in the application of GDPR in the workplace across the EU affects the way digital monitoring can be governed in practice. Some countries prohibit all but basic time and attendance monitoring, whereas others permit employers greater autonomy to monitor employees so that employment contracts are fulfilled. The panel aims to explore how Data Protection can help to promote healthy, safe and equitable working conditions where employees are digitally monitored. The ways in which Data Protection Professionals can make a difference to monitored employees will be discussed. Speakers will set out the extent of digital monitoring in Europe, the health, safety and wellbeing concerns and cases where intervention and outreach by data protection professionals has made a difference.

Questions to be answered

  1. How can Data Protection Professional help to promote healthy safe and equitable working conditions where employees are digitally monitored?
  2. How extensive is digital employee monitoring in Europe
  3. What are the health and wellbeing concerns associated with digital employee monitoring?
  4. How is it currently regulated across Europe?

Moderator

William Webster

Office of the Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner - International

Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner, UK, Professor of Public Policy and Management, University of Stirling, CRISP ex-Director.

Speaker

Cristina Vannini- Goodchild

CVG Solutions - International

A fully qualified CIPP/E and C-DPO data protection specialist and owner of CVG Solutions Ltd® a multi-award-winning Data Protection consultancy. Cristina has helped businesses of all sizes to integrate Data Protection into their operations and to foster a Data Protection culture.

Speaker

Emmanuelle Brun

European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) - Europe

Expert on the health and safety and wellbeing concerns arising in the context of digitally monitored and algorithmically managed work.

Speaker

Davide Villani

Joint Research Centre of the European Commission - Europe

Co- author of a major report, Digital Monitoring, Algorithmic Management and the Platformisation of Work in Europe, which sets out the extent of digital monitoring across the 27 member states of the European Union

Speaker

Kirstie Ball

Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy, University of St Andrews - International