Data processing
Your employer may ask you to submit certain personal data:
- during the selection procedure and in the job interview
- when drafting the employment contract and preparing an employee file
- throughout your employment period
Criteria for lawful data processing
Your data processing is an interference with your right to control the use of your private information and thus with your private life. Therefore, the collection and subsequent use of your personal data is allowed only in compliance with specific criteria listed exhaustively in the General Data Protection Regulation.
Resources
Law
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Constitution of the Republic of Latvia (Satversme)
In force as of 7 November 1922
Articles 96, 116
Articles 96, 116
Regulation (EU) 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation)
In force as of 27 April 2016
Applicable as of 25 May 2018
Articles 6, 9 and 10
Applicable as of 25 May 2018
Articles 6, 9 and 10
Case Law
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Judgment No SKA-264/2015
Supreme Court of the Republic of Latvia
9 October 2015
See Summary on case law regarding the access to data
(2019-2019), pages 44-49
9 October 2015
See Summary on case law regarding the access to data
(2019-2019), pages 44-49
Other
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Handbook on European data protection law
2018 edition
Joint publication by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights and the Council of Europe
Joint publication by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights and the Council of Europe
Human Rights Guide
A European platform for human rights education