A sales adviser of an exclusive car dealer proved to be overly enthusiastic when he confided to a customer, in a phone call during working hours, that he was starting out for himself “in the background” and asked the customer whether they might be interested in his own Audi...
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...