Revista de Derecho Político (Dec 2014)

La videovigilancia laboral y el derecho a la protección de datos de carácter personal // Workplace video surveillance and right to the protection of personal data

  • Ana Gude Fernández

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5944/rdp.91.2014.13219
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 91
pp. 43 – 90

Abstract

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SUMMARY: 1. THE NEW INSTRUMENTS OF CONTROL IN WORKPLACE: THE VIDEO CAMERAS. 2. VIDEO SURVEILLANCE AND THE RIGHT TO THE PROTECTION OF INFORMATION OF PERSONAL CHARACTER. 2.1. The right to the protection of information of personal character: differential characteristics opposite to the privacy right 2.2. Images like information of personal character and its treatment 2.3. Right to information and the assent of the worker affected by the video surveillance 2.4. The principle of the quality of data. The prohibition of incompatible uses 2.5. The principle of the security of data 2.6. The Sentence 29/2013 of the Constitutional Court 2.7. The cession of data 2.8. The ARCO rights in the video surveillance in workplaces a. The right to access b. The rights to rectification and cancellation c. Consequences of the infraction of the LOPD in this area 3. CONCLUSIONS RESUMEN: Este trabajo tiene por objeto el examen de los problemas que plantea la videovigilancia laboral desde la perspectiva del derecho a la protección de los datos. La Ley Orgánica 5/1999, de 13 diciembre y su Reglamento de desarrollo son aplicables a las imágenes obtenidas por los empresarios a través de videocámaras de sus trabajadores; pues bien, el análisis de estos textos normativos así como de la jurisprudencia dictada sobre la materia, en especial la STC 29/2013 de 11 de febrero, constituyen el contenido principal de este estudio. ABSTRACT: This work focuses on workplace video surveillance and its implications from the viewpoint of the right to the protection of personal data. Organic Law 5/1999 and its development regulation applies to the images obtained by employers through use of video cameras. The analysis of these legal texts and of the jurisprudence, particularly of the Constitutional Court sentence of 11 February 2013, is the subject of this study.

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