Warnings Regarding Temperature Checks As A Requirement To Enter Shops, Workplaces And Other Establishments

The de-escalation of measures which restrict mobility and economic activity has meant that certain companies check the temperatures of their employees, clients and users as a requirement for entry to workplaces and shops.

The Spanish Data Protection Agency has expressed its concern about this practice, through a statement highlighting the interference with the rights of citizens that temperature checks entail and the lack of guidelines set out by the Health Authorities to apply such measures.

Thus, the Ministry of Health, in Directive SND/388/2020, of May 3, which establishes the conditions for the opening of certain shops and services to the public, and the opening of archives, as well as for the practice of professional and federated sports, has not prescribed temperature checks as a requirement for de-escalation.