10 FAQs on the Legality of Monitoring Employees
This blog explains how and why employee rights should be protected, by answering the top 10 FAQs on the legalities of the monitoring process.
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Employers Are Spying on Remote Workers in Their Homes
The future of work is here, ushered in by a global pandemic. But is it turning employment into a Workers’ Paradise of working at home? Or more of a Big Brother panopticon? Disturbing increases in use of digital surveillance technologies by employers to monitor their remote workers is raising alarm bells. With the number of remote workers surging as …
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Wild West: Firms interpret California’s privacy law as they see fit
For all the angst it’s already caused in corporate America, the strongest data privacy law in the nation landed on the West Coast last week with a relative whimper. But the flurry of legal notices that accompanied the California Consumer Privacy Act point to regulatory and political drama ahead this election year. The landmark California …
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From Whole Foods to Amazon, Invasive Technology Controlling Workers Is More Dystopian Than You Think
You’ve been fired. According to your employer’s data, your facial expressions showed you were insubordinate and not trustworthy. You also move your hands at a rate that is considered substandard. Other companies you may want to work for could receive this data, making it difficult for you to find other work in this field. That may sound …
It’s Unanimous: Supreme Court Permits Search of Employees’ Electronic Communications
In Quon v. City of Ontario, the 9th Circuit held that a California police department’s review of an officer’s text messages was an invasion of the officer’s right to privacy. In a unanimous ruling issued yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Quon decision and ruled that the police department’s review of the provocative text …
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Employee Has Privacy Interest In E-Mail Communications To Attorney On Company Computer
Employee’s E-Mails To Lawyer On Company Laptop Are Off Limits The decision by the Supreme Court of New Jersey in Stengart v. Loving Care Agency has a lot of lawyers talking. The case has to do with the privacy interests of an employee’s personal e-mail on a company computer and the attorney-client privilege. The reason …
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