Confidențialitatea la locul de muncă: Reglementarea camerei de supraveghere video în Dreptul muncii din Ungaria
Privacy at Work: the Regulation of Camera Surveillance in Hungarian Labour Law

Summary/Abstract: The paper will examine the Hungarian privacy and data protection regulation concerning workplace monitoring with special regard to camera surveillance. Hungary is a Member State of the European Union, which means that it has to meet the legal requirements arising from its membership. Recently, between 2012 and 2014 the whole privacy and data protection regulation changed in Hungary: a new constitution, a new civil code, a new labour code and a new data protection act came into force, extremely changing the legal environment of our subject. The paper will present how Hungary regulates CCTV surveillance in the employment context from a data protection point of view, focusing on the legal environment and on the practice of the data protection supervisory authority with regard to the question whether Hungary successfully complies with the requirements posed by its membership in the European Union. After the detailed analysis of the regulation and its comparison to EU norms, I came to the conclusion that as a result of the legal changes Hungary complies better with the EU requirements, ensuring an effective protection of the fundamental rights of employees. However, I also found some insufficiencies of the regulation, to which I will propose some solutions in my paper.

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