Protection of employees’ personal data in the context of the spread of algorithmic management based on court practice.
https://doi.org/10.30729/2541-8823-2025-10-4-190-212
Abstract
The importance of employees’ personal data, the protection of which is provided for by current legislation, is changing in the context of the current transformation of labour relations. This is due to the spread of digital technologies, primarily artificial intelligence technologies and products based on them, the efficiency of which directly depends on access to gigantic volumes of data. Employers are increasingly introducing digital technologies into the workplace, which means that the confidentiality of employees’ personal data is exposed to additional, previously absent risks, as evidenced by the increasingly extensive case law on this issue. One of the most significant changes made in recent years in the management of production processes is algorithmic management. It is built primarily on the work of artificial intelligence systems that collect numerous data, analyse it, and actually make many decisions for the employer or significantly facilitate their adoption with the intellectual support. Algorithmic management allows for the optimisation of management, including personnel management, but increases the risks of leakage or misuse of information required for the operation of artificial intelligence systems, threatening the privacy of employees, which in the long term may become a fairly common cause of labour disputes. A study of existing judicial practice makes it possible to more accurately identify gaps and shortcomings in legal regulation that need to be eliminated, including those that hinder the administration of justice in resolving disputes concerning the processing of employees’ personal data by employers.
About the Authors
I. Begishev
Kazan Innovative University named after V.G. Timiryasov
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Ildar Begishev (Kazan, Russia) — Doctor of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor, Chief Researcher, Research Institute of Digital Technologies and Law, Professor, Department of Criminal Law and Process, Honored Lawyer of the Republic of Tatarstan
I. Filipova
Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Irina Filipova — Candidate of Law, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Labor and Environmental Law
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Begishev I., Filipova I. Protection of employees’ personal data in the context of the spread of algorithmic management based on court practice. Kazan University Law Review. 2025;10(4):190-212. https://doi.org/10.30729/2541-8823-2025-10-4-190-212
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