Technology has long been changing the way businesses monitor employees. Only recently, with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and shift to remote working, have implementation efforts been seemingly thrust into overdrive, requiring compliance officers to take a step back and consider the risks from a regulatory and ethical standpoint.
The opening session of Compliance Week’s virtual Cyber Risk & Data Privacy Summit on Tuesday addressed these challenges in the context of the modern threat environment. The physical workplace has been phased out for many businesses for the foreseeable future, leaving managers and executives with less visibility into their employees’ working habits. While artificial intelligence (AI) and other tools seem a simple solution to this problem, the burgeoning data privacy law landscape creates a series of pitfalls for companies to navigate.
