Internet usage of employees and the limits of control in Austrian law

Abstract

This paper contains an analysis of the Austrian approach to the problem of monitoring private internet usage of employees and defines legal limits for employers who want to control and limit private internet use in the workplace. Austrian and European data protection law serves as the major point of reference.

Keywords

• private use of the internet
• workplace
• control
• protection of personal data
• principle of proportionality
• GDPR