According to Germany on August 25, le monde, German federal government decided to strengthen the data information protection of enterprise employees, the workplace setting secret monitoring device is halted.

The federal interior minister Thomas DE Maiziere said the draft law passed by the cabinet than the existing law to better protect the rights of employees. In the future, will ban the use of secret video monitoring equipment in the workplace. But in some public places, such as supermarket checkouts, still allows the use of public video monitoring.

In addition, the bill also to employers when recruiting new employees can use of network information on the regulation: allows the use of the general, common network information sources, but prohibited from closed social network channels (such as Facebook) to obtain information.