Personal Data Protection Code, Italy Legislative Decree 196/2003
Law. Placed at Italy. Read 30 Sep 2026; 3 provisions cited by the planner.
Italian Privacy Code Art. 114Apply the Workers' Statute art. 4 guarantees to any remote monitoring Art. 4 of Law 300/1970 on remote monitoring remains in force: equipment that can monitor workers remotely only for organisational and production needs, safety or asset protection and only after a union agreement or labour inspectorate authorisation, work tools and attendance recorders excepted, and use of the data only after adequate information to workers and in compliance with this Code. The Garante enforces art. 4 together with the GDPR principles (lawfulness, minimisation, storage limitation) in its decisions on video surveillance, email and internet use and geolocation.
Italian Privacy Code Art. 171Do not breach the Workers' Statute rules on remote monitoring (art. 4(1)) or opinion inquiries (art. 8) Breach of art. 4(1) (installing or using equipment capable of remote monitoring outside the permitted purposes or without the union agreement or labour inspectorate authorisation) or of art. 8 (inquiries into workers' opinions or irrelevant facts) of Law 300/1970 is a criminal offence punished with the penalties of art. 38 of that Law (fine or arrest from 15 days to one year, jointly in the most serious cases, with publication of the conviction).
Italian Privacy Code Art. 2-septies(7)Use biometrics for physical and logical access to data only within the safeguard measures Consistently with the security obligations of GDPR art. 32, biometric data may be used in procedures for physical and logical access to data by authorised persons, in compliance with the data protection principles and the safeguard measures of this article.