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The steps in-between
Published in Jim Mason, Innovating Construction Law, 2021
Wearable Technology. The workers' kit can plot stress and heart rate and lead to intervention where rates reached dangerous levels. Location, fatigue levels, humidity and temperature can also be monitored. One positive result which is achieved when the results are shared with the workers is an improvement in fitness. Wearable technology such as sensors and location trackers assist with site management and real-time updates. Legal issues arising out of this technology include accessing personal data that is protected by legislation in form of the Data Protection Act 1998.
Ethical issues in domestic building performance evaluation studies
Published in Building Research & Information, 2019
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Albrecht, 2016) was approved by the European Parliament in April 2016. As a regulation, it is directly applicable without the need for domestic legislation from May 2018 onwards. It effectively repeals the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) and introduces new legislation regulating the processing of personal data. The GDPR, in many respects, extends the DPA’s current position. Whilst the main driver for the legislation is aimed at the increasing harvesting and processing of digital data by large corporations, its implementation will impact on ethical processes insofar as they relate to the collection, storage and, ultimately, deletion of data. It will affect all organizations collecting data, irrespective of whether they have ethical policies. It is attracting attention due to the punitive nature of fines for transgression, i.e. up to the greater amount of 2% of annual global turnover or €10 million and higher fines up to €20 million for more serious breaches.