The newspaper said employee monitoring now increasingly goes beyond cameras to include tools tracking activity in IT systems, GPS location and use of company equipment. The issue was recently discussed by the Labor Protection Council attached to parliament, where participants said labor code rules on monitoring may not reflect current technological realities.
The Family, Labor and Social Policy Ministry took a different view, telling the newspaper that existing rules were “technologically neutral” and could also be applied to new monitoring tools. For that reason, it said it was not currently planning legislative changes.
“This generates serious risks on both sides of the employment relationship,” Dominika Dorre-Kolasa, a legal adviser and partner at Raczkowski law firm, told the paper.
“Employees may be subjected to increasingly advanced forms of supervision without adequate guarantees of transparency and proportionality, while employers operate in a state of significant legal uncertainty,” she said.
Experts also raised doubts about a new Meta product, the newspaper said, referring to glasses that can record surroundings in real time, take photographs and collect biometric data from users.
According to the report, the glasses are controlled using EMG technology, which reads signals sent by muscles and passes them to an application. A green light built into the frame is the only indication that the device is recording.
“Often the person being recorded does not even know about it,” the newspaper said, adding that this raised questions over possible violations of privacy rights and whether obligations under EU data protection rules were being met.
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Source: PAP