Body temperature readings
Some organizations are taking into consideration installing temperature scanners or other means of verifying the body temperature of staff and visitors, in their effort to protect the workplace against the spread of COVID-19. Th ...
Collecting health data through questionnaires
The issue of implementing questionnaires which gather health data and other information about the existence of risk factors, to both employees, collaborators and visitors, does not have a unified approach by the European Data Protec ...
Disclosing COVID-19 diagnosis
Companies explore whether they can disclose that someone has been diagnosed with COVID-19, in their efforts to protect staff and the general public. This article describes recent opinions published by EU Data Protection Authorities ...
Legal basis for processing health data
Because health data represents a special category of data, the GDPR allows processing only in exceptional situations indicated in Art. 9(2). In the context of measures aimed at containing the spread of COVID-19, organizations ar ...
Data Protection Newsletter – no.2/2020 February
This month in data protection news: ● See guidance from EU data protection authorities on how to process personal data in the context of COVID-19 ● Read about recent GDPR sanctions, including in the filed of telecoms ● Find out the recent guidelines from data protection authorities ● More GDPR news and further readings.