Get your staff's consent before you monitor them, tech inquiry warns
In evidence the Information Commissioner's Office submitted in the inquiry, it said:
Many of the key data protection concerns around connected tech in the workplace are the same as its use in other contexts, but the key difference is the nature of the employer/employee relationship and its inherent power imbalance. As noted above, the pandemic has led to increased home, remote or flexible working. It has also led to a more blurred distinction between the home and the workplace.
Speaking of the ICO, the report has bad news. All that stuff the government plans to do that undermines the ICO's independence, the independence of comms regulator Ofcom, and tweaks made to the Online Safety Bill – it's all going to backfire.The committee was vocal about powers the government wants to introduce for the Secretary of State in multiple places which would take away Parliamentary oversight of decisions taken.
The committee cited Trustee of the Carnegie UK Trust William Perrin, who argued that the powers delegated to the Secretary of State in the Online Safety Bill, as have been replicated in the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, were: explicitly drafted so that the Secretary of State can infinitely reject proposals it receives from Ofcom until it gets the proposal it wants. It is a very unusual power and that is before the Secretary of State then brings the [Statutory Instrument] to Parliament.It also said the Government should commit to ensuring that the Age-Appropriate Design Code – preventing the leakage of data from IoT gadgets used by children – is"strengthened rather than undermined" by data protection reform.
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