- 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
„Panorama” asks when biometric data can be collected, 13 January 2010
The collection of biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, is admissible only when allowed by special legal provisions – states Michał Serzycki, GIODO.
Replying to the question asked by Adam Krzykowski from „Panorama” (Polish television station’s news programme), who and when could collect our fingerprints, GIODO said that the issue was regulated by special provisions related to the Act on Personal Data Protection. And so, biometric data can be collected e.g. in order to have a passport made or to ensure security in particularly important areas (such as rooms in banks where safes are located). However, these data shall not be used for example for keeping working time records by employers or for control of persons entering a building by schools. – For it would violate the adequacy principle provided for in the Act on Personal Data Protection, according to which the data controller shall not collect excessive personal data, but only those which are necessary to realise the objectives. And the objective, such as working time record or verification of persons entering a building, can be attained in another way or by means of other techniques, e.g. by introducing magnetic cards – believes Michał Serzycki, the Inspector General for Personal Data Protection. GIODO’s standpoint on inadmissibility of collection of employees’ biometric data for the purpose of working time record with employees’ consent has been recently confirmed by the Supreme Administrative Court in its judgment of 1 December 2009 (ref. no. 249/09).