Employee Monitoring Law Planner

Sources

56 sources: 49 law, 6 official guidance, 1 standard (voluntary unless a contract, a procurement or a regulator makes it binding). Every provision is our statement of it, read from the published text. Laws named without text are listed on each location page.

SourceKindPlaced atReadCited
GDPR (the EU General Data Protection Regulation)lawEU and EEA locations30 Sep 20268
UK GDPRlawUK locations30 Sep 20265
EU AI ActlawEU locations30 Sep 20262
EDPB Guidelines on processing personal data through video devices 3/2019official guidance, not lawEU and EEA locations30 Sep 20266
Article 29 Working Party Opinion on data processing at work (WP249) 2/2017official guidance, not lawEU and EEA locations30 Sep 202617
ICO guidance: employment practices and data protection, monitoring workers 2023official guidance, not lawUK locations30 Sep 202627
ICO guidance on video surveillance, including CCTV 2022official guidance, not lawUK locations30 Sep 20265
Investigatory Powers (Interception by Businesses etc. for Monitoring and Record-keeping Purposes) Regulations 2018lawUK locations30 Sep 20263
Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG), GermanylawGermany30 Sep 20268
Works Constitution Act (BetrVG), GermanylawGermany30 Sep 20264
Labour Code (Code du travail), France: monitoring and CSE consultationlawFrance30 Sep 20267
CNIL guidance on employee monitoring and workplace video surveillance4 provisions from pages the CNIL marks out of dateofficial guidance, not lawFrance30 Sep 202623
Workers' Statute, Italy Law 300/1970lawItaly30 Sep 20264
Personal Data Protection Code, Italy Legislative Decree 196/2003lawItaly30 Sep 20263
Works Councils Act (WOR), Netherlandslawthe Netherlands30 Sep 20264
GDPR Implementation Act (UAVG), Netherlandslawthe Netherlands30 Sep 20262
Organic Law on Data Protection and Digital Rights (LOPDGDD), Spain Organic Law 3/2018lawSpain30 Sep 20263
NSW Workplace Surveillance Act 2005lawNew South Wales30 Sep 20269
NSW Surveillance Devices Act 20073 provisions with text not verified against the current consolidationlawNew South Wales30 Sep 20268
ACT Workplace Privacy Act 2011lawthe Australian Capital Territory30 Sep 20269
Victorian Surveillance Devices Act 1999lawVictoria30 Sep 20264
Australian Privacy Principles (APPs)lawAustralian locations, when you say the Privacy Act applies30 Sep 20264
Ontario Employment Standards Act, Part XI.1 (written policy on electronic monitoring) 2000lawOntario, when you say 25 or more employees on 1 January30 Sep 20267
New York Civil Rights Law section 52-c (electronic monitoring notice)lawNew York30 Sep 20263
Connecticut General Statutes section 31-48d (electronic monitoring of employees)lawConnecticut30 Sep 20265
Delaware Code title 19 section 705 (monitoring of employee communications)lawDelaware30 Sep 20263
US Electronic Communications Privacy Act, Title I (Wiretap Act, 18 USC 2510 to 2523)lawevery US location30 Sep 20263
US Stored Communications Act (18 USC 2701 to 2713)lawevery US location30 Sep 20263
California Penal Code sections 632 and 632.7 (recording confidential communications)lawCalifornia30 Sep 20262
Illinois Eavesdropping Act (720 ILCS 5, Article 14)lawIllinois30 Sep 20266
Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA)lawIllinois30 Sep 20265
Texas Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act (Business and Commerce Code 503.001)lawTexas30 Sep 20264
California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the CPRAlawCalifornia, when you say the business meets the CCPA thresholds30 Sep 20265
Florida Security of Communications Act (Florida Statutes chapter 934)lawFlorida30 Sep 20265
Washington RCW chapter 9.73 (recording private communications and conversations)lawWashington30 Sep 20263
Massachusetts Wiretap Act (M.G.L. c. 272 s. 99)lawMassachusetts30 Sep 20264
Pennsylvania Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Control Act (18 Pa.C.S. chapter 57)lawPennsylvania30 Sep 20265
Maryland Wiretap Act (Courts and Judicial Proceedings 10-402)lawMaryland30 Sep 20264
Montana privacy in communications (Mont. Code Ann. 45-8-213)lawMontana30 Sep 20262
New Hampshire Wiretapping and Eavesdropping Act (RSA 570-A)lawNew Hampshire30 Sep 20264
Oregon obtaining contents of communications (ORS 165.540)lawOregon30 Sep 20263
Nevada interception of communications and private conversations (NRS 200.610 to 200.690)lawNevada30 Sep 20262
Michigan Eavesdropping Act (MCL 750.539a to 750.539j)lawMichigan30 Sep 20263
Connecticut General Statutes section 31-48b (employer electronic surveillance limits)lawConnecticut30 Sep 20261
Connecticut General Statutes section 52-570d (recording private telephone conversations)lawConnecticut30 Sep 20261
California Penal Code section 631 (wiretapping)lawCalifornia30 Sep 20264
Delaware Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Act (11 Del. C. chapter 24, subchapter I)lawDelaware30 Sep 20262
Queensland Invasion of Privacy Act 1971lawQueensland30 Sep 20263
California Labor Code section 435 and Part 5.8 (recording and surveillance tools in restrooms, locker rooms, changing rooms and bathrooms)lawCalifornia30 Sep 20264
New York Labor Law sections 203-c and 203-d (recording in restrooms, locker rooms and changing rooms; personal identifying information)lawNew York30 Sep 20262
New York Penal Law article 250 (eavesdropping and surveillance offences)lawNew York30 Sep 20264
Texas Penal Code section 16.02 (interception, use or disclosure of wire, oral or electronic communications)lawTexas30 Sep 20263
German Criminal Code (StGB) sections 201 and 201a (confidentiality of the spoken word; images of the intimate sphere)lawGermany30 Sep 20263
Penal Code (Code penal), France: article 226-1 (capturing words, images or location in private)lawFrance30 Sep 20264
ILO Code of Practice on the Protection of Workers' Personal Data 1997official guidance, not lawevery location, as the international baseline30 Sep 202610
ISO/IEC 27001 (information security management)standardevery location, when you tick ISO/IEC 2700130 Sep 20262

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