Key Workplace Data Protection Considerations In The Remote Working Environment
Published on: 27/04/2021
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Deirdre Crowley Partner in Employment & Technology Groups, Mathesons
Deirdre Crowley Partner in Employment & Technology Groups, Mathesons
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In her day to day practice, Deirdre advises on all aspects of employment, equality and industrial relations law. Appearing regularly before the Workplace Relations Commission, the Courts and the Data Protection Commission on behalf of clients, Deirdre is an experienced, robust and practical advocate. In recent years, Deirdre developed a niche practice in the areas of employment and data protection with particular experience in dealing with contentious data subject access requests, employment related privacy data breaches, regulatory investigations by the Data Protection Commission and enforcement actions involving criminal sanctions in the data protection space.

Eimear Boyle Former Senior Associate at Mathesons
Eimear Boyle Former Senior Associate at Mathesons
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Eimear has extensive corporate employment law and data protection expertise, and supports HR managers and directors, senior executives and business owners through the challenges of employee investigations, disciplinary proceedings and workplace litigation together with day-to-day employment contractual and policy queries and strategic HR planning.

Remote working and data protection – what are some of the key considerations? ⚓︎

There are broadly two categories of specific data protection issues that arise for consideration where employees are working remotely. These include:

  • New Processing Activities

New types of processing activities are being carried out to comply with public health guidelines. These activities must be scrutinised carefully before an employer implements them. This may delay a return to the workplace but is critical to ensure compliance with the obligation under the GDPR that data protection be ‘by design and by default’. If necessary, employers should undertake a data protection impact assessment (or DPIA), or if relying on the lawful basis of the employer’s legitimate interests a legitimate interests

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