GDPR: German Laptop Retailer Fined $12.6M For Video-Monitoring Employees (zdnet.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/21/01/19/1632237/gdpr-german-laptop-retailer-fined-126m-for-video-monitoring-employees
- Source link: https://www.zdnet.com/article/gdpr-german-laptop-retailer-fined-eur10-4m-for-video-monitoring-employees/
> The penalty represents one of the largest fines imposed under the 2018 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) not only in Germany but across Europe as well. The recipient is notebooksbilliger.de AG (doing business as NBB), an online e-commerce portal and retail chain dedicated to selling laptops and other IT supplies. The State Commissioner for Data Protection (LfD) for the state of Lower Saxony said that the company installed two years ago a video monitoring system inside its warehouses, salesrooms, and common workspaces for the purpose of preventing and investigating thefts and tracking product movements. Officials said the video surveillance system was active at all times, and recordings were saved for as much as 60 days in the company's database.
[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/gdpr-german-laptop-retailer-fined-eur10-4m-for-video-monitoring-employees/
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Germans are going "inverse" after the holocaust thing .. noice I say
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> How is this unusual, or even a bad thing? When you're on the clock and on company time, you should expect to be monitored. You do not carry a little personal bubble of privacy around with you - it ends when you walk through the door and punch the clock.
You actually do carry a little personal bubble of privacy around you; it's a legal one and it's called "privacy rights". You don't sign them away just by punching a clock.
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Found the libertarian.
Indeed! (Score:2)
That's right! Only the state is allowed to do constant surveillance of its people!
The Question is... (Score:1)
Does the NSA still have their backup copy?
Who's gonna monitor and review all that video? (Score:2)
Must take a large staff just for surveillance.
"Inside" the premises (Score:2)
When I read the headline, I though "oh another company that surveils their employees at home", but no this was not some spyware installed on the laptops. It was clearly an internal security system.
This is crazy. Monitoring premises goes both way. They not only protect against insider theft, but will also help outsiders from harming them. With all those crazies attacking tech campuses in the recent years, does it not make sense to have 24/7 surveillance at the premises?
Pre-covid we had security card access a
Germans treated as humans at work. (Score:2)
Rosbifs and Yankees stunned. Thought everybody belonged to their employer for the time of work.
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In that case I should be compensated $100 million .. for being under constant surveillance by my boss because and only because he wanted to please his boss with my ideas.. duh.