Privacy Commissioner FAQ

The Data Protection Authority has prepared a series of FAQs regarding the sensitive issue of personal data processing in connection with the ongoing public health emergency.

Among other information, specific guidelines are provided regarding the possibility of taking employees’ body temperatures at the entrance to the workplace.

It should be noted, in fact, that the real-time measurement of body temperature, when linked to the individual’s identity, constitutes the processing of personal data.

Additional warnings are also provided regarding the use of self-declarations or the possibility that the identity of an infected worker might be disclosed to other colleagues. On this last point, the Data Protection Authority rules out the possibility that an employer may disclose the identity of an infected employee to other workers.

The employer remains obligated to report the names of infected employees to the relevant health authorities and to cooperate with them in identifying and tracing the “chain of close contacts” in order to immediately implement the necessary preventive measures.

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