The Privacy Guarantor has prepared a series of FAQs in relation to the sensitive issue of personal data processing, related to the ongoing state of epidemiological emergency.
Among other information, specific guidance is provided in relation to the possibility of taking employees' body temperature at the entrance to the work site.
In fact, it is specified that the real-time tracking of body temperature, when associated with the identity of the data subject, constitutes the processing of personal data.
Further warnings are also given in relation to the use of possible self-declaration or the possibility of the infected worker's identity being disclosed to other colleagues. On the latter point, the Supervisor rules out the possibility of the employer disclosing the identity of the infected employee to other workers.
The employer's duty to report the names of infected personnel to the relevant health authorities and to cooperate with them in identifying and reconstructing the "close contact chain" in order to immediately activate the necessary prophylaxis measures remains intact.