Pssst: Your Employer Is Probably Surveilling You
A law school professor and author explains who’s watching you and why.
Surveillance cameras monitor the refining process inside Victorias Milling Company Inc. sugar refinery in Victorias City, Negros Occidental, the Philippines, on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022.
Photographer: Veejay Villafranca/BloombergThe Covid-19 pandemic ushered in an array of new employee-monitoring technologies that most workers haven’t caught up with—from productivity software on phones and computers and GPS trackers to wearable technologies like construction helmets and tools that follow your social-media activity during work hours.
Some are obvious. Even bosses with little tech savvy can get a snapshot of your day by tracking your use of programs like Zoom, Slack, Google Workspace and Microsoft Office, plus logins to corporate terminals.