The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was enforced on the 25^th May 2018, which applied major changes to the way data is protected, enabling employers to reconsider their employment and HR procedures, and amend them in order to comply with GDPR requirements.

 Employers should maintain focus on the following factors:

The Article 29 Working Party (WP29) published an assessment of the balance between legitimate interests of employers, and the reasonable privacy expectations of employees. In which it outlines the risk assessment posed by modern working practices, where new technologies enable more systematic processing of employees’ personal data at work, which bring about challenges in regards to privacy and data protection.

Processing of personal data on the use of online services and location data from a smart device, are much less visible to employees than other more traditional types such as overt CCTV cameras, yet they encapsulate our lives more so.