All employee monitoring articles
-
ArticleICO guidance stresses importance of reasoning in employee monitoring
The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office issued draft guidance to help ensure employers’ monitoring of staff performance does not turn into surveillance or harassment.
-
ArticleAI monitoring benefits must be weighed against employee skepticism
The EU’s agency for occupational safety and health released a report examining the risks and opportunities of AI-based worker management systems for employee’s physical and mental wellbeing.
-
ArticleTransparency key to navigating modern employee monitoring risk landscape
The opening session of Compliance Week’s virtual Cyber Risk & Data Privacy Summit addressed the challenges of using technology to monitor employees while considering regulatory and ethical risks.
-
ArticleEmployee monitoring proving hot target for GDPR enforcement
Recent fines in Italy against two food delivery companies for violating the privacy of their drivers should act as a warning that employee surveillance can prove to be a major breach of the General Data Protection Regulation.
-
ArticleGerman laptop retailer fined $12.7M under GDPR for employee surveillance
A German data regulator fined an online laptop and electronic goods retailer €10.4 million (U.S. $12.7 million) for video-monitoring employees for at least two years without legal basis.
-
ArticleHow far is too far with employee monitoring? Barclays case could offer litmus
The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office is investigating allegations that Barclays Bank had effectively been spying on employees by using an intrusive software system that monitored workers’ activity.