The increasing and pressing development of technology permeates every field of human activity and it is considered to have profoundly affected the labour market and workplace environment. A greater concern regarding workers’ privacy and dignity has been generated by the increase of subtle and invasive controls by the employers. This paper aims to investigate the defensive controls made by an employer to protect company assets analysing the decisions of the Italian Data Protection Authority. As a result, the principles that make these controls lawful as well as the strict bond between the privacy policy and the legislation of the Workers Statute emerge from the practical cases submitted to the Authority. Moreover, the examined cases demonstrate the unstable balance between the employer’s needs and the protection of workers’ rights.
Il progressivo e incalzante sviluppo della tecnologia, che pervade ogni ambito dell’agire umano, compreso il mondo del lavoro, ha reso più forte l’esigenza di tutela della riservatezza e dignità dei lavoratori, che spesso diventano bersaglio di controlli datoriali sempre più subdoli e invasivi. Il presente contributo, ponendosi dal punto di vista del Garante della privacy ed esplorando la sua “produzione giurisprudenziale”, si propone di realizzare un’analisi dei c.d. controlli difensivi attuati dal datore di lavoro a tutela del patrimonio aziendale. Attraverso l’investigazione di casi pratici sottoposti all’attenzione del Garante, emergono i principi che orientano la legittimità di tali controlli, la stretta correlazione esistente tra la normativa sulla privacy e la disciplina dettata dallo Statuto dei lavoratori e il delicato equilibrio esistente tra le esigenze del datore di lavoro e la tutela dei diritti del lavoratore.
L’instabile equilibrio tra controllori e controllati nello sguardo del Garante privacy
Antonella Fragassi
2024-01-01
Abstract
The increasing and pressing development of technology permeates every field of human activity and it is considered to have profoundly affected the labour market and workplace environment. A greater concern regarding workers’ privacy and dignity has been generated by the increase of subtle and invasive controls by the employers. This paper aims to investigate the defensive controls made by an employer to protect company assets analysing the decisions of the Italian Data Protection Authority. As a result, the principles that make these controls lawful as well as the strict bond between the privacy policy and the legislation of the Workers Statute emerge from the practical cases submitted to the Authority. Moreover, the examined cases demonstrate the unstable balance between the employer’s needs and the protection of workers’ rights.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.


