- Recording for POLSAT Television, 13 August 2010
- TVP INFO asks about data protection on social networking sites, 11 August 2010
- Interview for TVN24, 12 August 2010
- TVN CNBC Biznes asks about the protection of entrepreneur data, 10 August 2010
- GIODO will cooperate with Human Rights Defender (RPO)
- GIODO’s study on the protection of personal data of children and teenagers
- GIODO protects the privacy of preschoolers’ families
- Gasworks changed standard form contracts
- Analysis of terms of service of nasza-klasa social networking site is under way
- ID cards may only be retained in exceptional circumstances
- The term of office of the new Inspector General for Personal Data Protection has begun
- Tribute to the victims of the plane accident in Smolensk
- GIODO to check nasza-klasa.pl social networking website
- The Act of 29 August 1997 on the Protection of Personal Data (unified text: Journal of Laws of 2002 No. 101 item 926 with amendments)
- nasza-klasa.pl social networking website - inspection results presented at the press conference
- Amendment to the act
- Spring Conference of European Data Protection Authorities
- Privacy Policy http:// www.giodo.gov.pl
For „Rzeczpospolita” daily on collection of employees’ personal data, 13 January 2010
There is a need for a debate on the types of employees’ and job applicants’ personal data which can be processed by employers – believes Michał Serzycki, GIODO.
He talked about it during the interview given to Izabela Rakowska-Boroń from „Rzeczpospolita” daily. The interview was devoted to the provisions regulating the processing of employees’ and job applicants’ personal data by employers.
The journalist was in particular interested in the fact whether in GIODO’s view the existing labour law did not correspond to the employers’ needs on one hand, and poorly protected the employees’ right to privacy on the other one.
Michał Serzycki emphasised that although mainly the provisions of the labour law specified which data of employees and job applicants could be processed by employers, the latter were still obliged to observe the general rules provided for in the Act on Personal Data Protection. – I believe that the scope of data collected by employers is inadequate to the needs currently dictated by the labour market in connection with civilization development – he said. – The binding legal provisions allow employers to collect data and employees or job applicants – to give them, and thus cause serious interpretation difficulties, which in consequence leads to ignoring or even circumventing these provisions in their application in practice – he explained.
As examples he quoted conducting psychological tests, using biometric data for working time record, collecting information on employees and job applicants be means of social networking sites.
- I think there is a need first for a debate, and then for such a change of binding labour law provisions, so as to update the catalogue of employees’ and job applicants’ data which can be processed by employers, and at the same time ensure the protection of subordinates’ and job applicants’ rights – stated Michał Serzycki.