05.01.15, 16:20 – Source: Reuters
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allowed to Dutch companies and organizations – albeit under strict conditions – check or prevent their employees on European and US lists of terrorist suspects. That may only if it is proved that the action has legal basis. That says a spokesman for the Dutch Data Protection Authority (CBP).
The employer must demonstrate that the end justifies the means. The heavy invasion of privacy to prevent something worse. “Because it means is quite heavy, the key is pretty strict,” said the spokesman. ‘It is in the first place, the employer who must perform the key. Ultimately, only to come out right. “
The CBP responded thus request via the Der Spiegel leaked news that the German carmaker Daimler are 280,000 workers will screen every three months on possible participation in terrorist organizations. This is done on the basis of lists of terrorist suspects by the European Union and the United States. Possibly the authorities are informed. Applicants are screened as well. The central works council of Daimler agreed according to the German weekly with the measure introduced on 1 December.
The privacy watchdog is not known whether Dutch companies perform similar checks. Or CBP as research into doing or going to do, wanted to be the spokesman did not say. “Because we do never notices about.”
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