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Tracked at work
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I was watching my amazon courier yesterday as he travelled to my house with my parcel. If tracking was illegal this wouldn’t be allowed.
Basically when you’re at work there is nothing wrong with your employer wanting to know where you are.
Actually for once you aren't quite right on this. Under the ICO the definition of personal data is anything that can identify an individual - so for a computer logon it could be logon account or IP address.
IMO the tracking isn't illegal, however as you can likely identify the individual (or what would be the point) then it would indeed be personal data. This isn't an issue though, it would be very easy for the company to supply a reason why they needed this data, and it would need to be included in the company privacy policy and staff should be made aware (and give consent). There is also provision under GDPR that you must make it easy to not give consent - but the counter would be no consent, no employment.
Downloading porn would come under the computer misuse act 1990.
If large employer, what has been the union feedback?
Your BIL is a little behind the times.
PDA 'actuals' is on this gen of PDAs its live and has been for many months.
Trimble monitors vehicles and PDAs monitor the full time they are logged in.