Bosses turn to “tattleware” to keep tabs on employees working at home
The pandemic prompted a surge in the use of workplace surveillance programs – and they’re not going away any time soon
The Guardian,
2021
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If you work remotely, you may not understand the range of software your employer can deploy to monitor you. Writing in The Guardian, Sandy Milne warns that technologies surveilling remote workers may soon do the same to those in the office. Surveillance applications can log your keystrokes, take screenshots, see you via webcams, and capture your messages, mail and phone calls. Milne argues that the pandemic has inured employees to the blurring between private and shared spaces.
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Journalist Sandy Milne has written for The Guardian, Yahoo Singapore and The Times of Israel.
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