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Fine for ‘abusive’ monitoring of Icelandic Subway employee

An employee halves a Subway sandwich at a Subway restaurant.
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“Fear of running out of bread” claimed as one reason for video surveillance of staff.

Stjörnuna ehf., the operator of fast food sandwich chain Subway in Iceland, has been fined IKr 1,500,000 ($10,910) by Personuvernd, the Icelandic supervisory authority for data protection, after details of electronic monitoring of employees emerged.

After a complaint from an employee, one manager was found watching workers from his home via

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