Sweden: The Phone House AB given permission to fingerprint its employees to monitor working time

Reasons for using fingerprints. The Phone House AB, a subsidiary of the namesake group, which employs 16,000 people in Europe, is a major chain that sells mobile phones in Sweden, since it controls 14% of the market.  For a year, the company has been using a biometric system fingerprinting its collaborators to monitor attendance and working time.  Seized with an anonymous complaint, the public organization responsible for protecting individuals’ lives against the increasing use of new technologies in society – Datainspectionen – carried out an investigation to make sure the company used the system properly. Considering that the company systematically uses fingerprinting, it should be dealt with as data with a personal character in the eyes of the law.
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gerprinting its collaborators to monitor attendance and working time. Seized with an anonymous complaint, the public organization responsible for protecting individuals’ lives against the increasing use of new technologies in society – Datainspectionen – carried out an investigation to make sure the company used the system properly. Considering that the company systematically uses fingerprinting, it should be dealt with as data with a personal character in the eyes of the law.

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