In an enforcement notice issued on 23 February, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK body responsible for data protection and information rights, sets out the conditions for using biometric data to check employee attendance. While such use is not illegal, it must be "necessary and proportionate" to the aim pursued by the company.
In a decision handed down on 23 February, the UK’s data protection and information rights watchdog (ICO) ordered sports and leisure facility operator Serco to stop using facial recognition technology and fingerprint scanning to check the attendance of its employees and ensure that they are paid for their working time. The company introduced biometric technology in 2017 at 38 leisure facilities because it considered that manual sign in registers are prone to human error and can be falsified...
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Nathalie Tran
Editor-in-Chief Mind HR