I have recently got new 3G card for my work computer. My boss hinted that he can track my whereabouts using this. I work hard and am successful in my job so he has no reason to track me that i can think of. Im not sure if he was joking but I have a few questions.
1. Is this legal?
2. I presume 3G cards can only be tracked when switched on, is this true?
3. Any advice as to how i should handle it with boss?
4. Anyone else come accross the same thing?
Many Thanks
Lanigano
Monitoring your location without your explicit permission would be an intrusion on your privacy and would come under the Data Protection Act. It is also a breach of Human Rights, as recognised in the European Convention on Human Rights and the EU Charter on Fundamental Rights which all EU member states have endorsed. So if you remployer wanted to introduce this he woudl need to do so under the terms of the Data Protection Act and ensure that there is no infringement on your rights.
By the way under the 2005 Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Act and EU Data Reterntion legislation all ISPs and telecoms companies in Ireland are obliged to store the details - but not the content- of all call records, email header details and in the case of mobile phones the location of the phone for a minimum period of three years.
C
I have recently got new 3G card for my work computer. My boss hinted that he can track my whereabouts using this. I work hard and am successful in my job so he has no reason to track me that i can think of. Im not sure if he was joking but I have a few questions.
1. Is this legal?
2. I presume 3G cards can only be tracked when switched on, is this true?
3. Any advice as to how i should handle it with boss?
4. Anyone else come accross the same thing?
Many Thanks
Your Boss should know your wherabouts if you are on his working time, most trucks, jcbs have tracking systems on them now.If you are such a good worker then you dont have to worry, same as big brother that they want to bring more into our lives you need not worry only if you are doing something you should not be doing.
Look a boss will say to a driver of a truck I am putting a tracking sysytem on your machine, he is not asking he is just letting him know that it is going to happen, the driver can leave his job if he wants but if he want's to keep his job then he has no say on whether his boss can monitor him or should I say his truck, these are the facts, just like you can put camera's up in a warehouse where people work if you want, you might not like it but these are the facts,Hi Dodo
If the OP has not agreed to this and the employer puts a monitoring system in place then, in my opinion and note I am not a solicitor, this is an intrusion on his basic and legal human right to privacy. These rights are important and it does not matter whether you have nothing to fear. Too often in the past innocent people have suffered because their basic rights were abused. We need to ensure we protect these rights and prevent their gradual erosion.
C
In the case of the OP, if the employer claims to track their movements via the 3G data card then this in effect means that wherever the OP takes the card the employer can track them. What about when the OP is not working, can the employer still monitor where the card and by extension where the OP is? Where the OP goes outside of work hours is none of the employers business.
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