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Apple Store's temperature checks may violate EU privacy rules, says German data protection office
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- Authors
- Juli Clover, Hartley Charlton, Tim Hardwick, Joe Rossignol, Mitchel Broussard, Eric Slivka
- Published
- May 12 2020
- Word count
- 217 words
So I understand what the German authorities are trying to say and where they are coming from, but I completely disagree with them.
You can easily do these temperature checks in a way which respects privacy. Don’t keep any written data and if they have to ask for a name to check someone in, they can easily have that station after the temperature check and far enough away so that they are aurally (is that a word?) separated.
I don’t disagree with making sure the rules are followed, but rather with the fact that they’re saying it’s not okay to check temperatures at all. At least that’s how I’m reading the article.