What information must a company give employees when collecting personal data?
When collecting personal data, including employee data, the controller must inform about the purpose and legal basis of the processing, the legitimate interests, the recipients, the intended storage period, the data subjects' rights and the right to complain. The information must be precise, transparent and comprehensible.
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- Source
- Regulation (EU) 2016/679, Article 13
- Source
- Verordnung (EU) 2016/679 (Datenschutz-Grundverordnung), EUR-Lex
- Area
- Personal data
- Checked
- 2026-10-03
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