The lecture on “Data protection in the workplace” took place on 10 April 2024.
Professor Paula Meira Lourenço taught the class as part of the XXV Postgraduate Course in Labour Law – Reform of the Labour Code (Agenda for Decent Work), organised by the Institute of Labour Law (IDT) of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.
The President of the CNPD emphasised the importance of the fundamental right to the protection of personal data and its relationship with other fundamental rights, and pointed out the importance of the CNPD regulating personal data, even when used by generative artificial intelligence, reflecting on the risks and solutions outlined in the Artificial Intelligence Regulation recently approved by the European Parliament, pointing out that this Regulation prohibits emotion recognition in the workplace and in schools, social classification, predictive policing (when it is based exclusively on profiling a person or assessing their characteristics) and AI that manipulates human behaviour or exploits people’s vulnerabilities.
He also paid special attention to the CNPD’s powers and duties as the National Supervisory Authority, noting the three (3) objectives and twenty (20) strategic actions contained in the CNPD’s Multiannual Activities Plan for the three-year period 2024-2026, approved on 19 July 2023, following the public consultation that took place in July 2023, as well as the CNPD’s Annual Activities Plan for 2024.
The XXV IDT Postgraduate Course in Labour Law is coordinated by Professors Pedro Romano Martinez and Luís Gonçalves da Silva, and Executive Coordinator Cláudia Madaleno.