Dutch Companies Not Allowed To Fitness-Track Their Employees (www.nu.nl)

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 8, 2016 @03:52AM from the tell-that-to-the-IRS dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The Dutch Privacy Authority made it known today that companies are not allowed to gather their employees' health data from wearable devices [original, in Dutch] such as the Fitbit. Of the two companies that were mentioned in this case, one of them had access to employee sleep patterns. In both cases the employees had given their employers permission to use this data. However, according to the Privacy Authority it is impossible to truly give 'free consent' when there is a 'financial dependency.'

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Google Translate by halivar · 2016-03-08 04:16 · Score: 4, Funny

At least the Google Translate of the article was more readable than most Slashdot summaries...
Re:Government intrusion by Anonymous Coward · 2016-03-08 04:17 · Score: 2, Funny

Also voluntarily sell your kids' organs.
Freedom for all! I am stupid and over-simplify models of human behaviour! ALL HAIL THE INVISIBLE HAND!