In a recent blog we reported on the risks of scanning staff’s fingerprints. After the court reprimanded Manfield last summer for using fingerprint scans to access the tills (click here, Dutch only), HEMA decided to ban these scans at the end of last year. It had intended to roll...
At the end of last year HEMA announced that it was going to stop using fingerprints for its time clocks and sales registers. HEMA had been planning to introduce this fast and reliable method of identification in all its shops. However, it decided to cancel the entire operation because...
The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), which came into effect on 25 May 2018, has certainly stirred things up. The GDPR has enhanced and extended the privacy rights of data subjects – the individuals whose personal data is processed. One of the new rights is the “right to be...
It is really imminent now: the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect on 25 May 2018. From that moment onward, uniform privacy legislation shall apply for the entire EU. For the past half-year the GDPR has been hot news: one could not open a newspaper without...