Wearables cannot be used for monitoring staff, even with their explicit permission or when done anonymously, so says The Netherlands’ Data Protection Authority in a new ruling against two companies. That could put a pin in the future of the quantified self at work, particularly as the Dutch law is derived from the EU’s data protection framework, meaning other European countries could soon rule this as an unpalatable intrusion into people’s personal lives. This particular case involved two unnamed companies, both of which were monitoring movement, one of which was also looking at the sleep patterns of its staff. The agency said: “Data on…
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