SignsYouNeedaNewJob ... When you find out your employer has more confidential data on you than Amazon, Apple or Facebook?
As public outrage mounts over Big Tech’s intrusions into personal privacy, few people consider the information they fork over to their employers every moment of every day.
Despite our having a fundamental right to privacy, we’ve essentially “given it up,” added Raleigh-based human resources consultant Laurie Ruettimann. “We’ve said, ‘You know what, we’ll give you a little bit of our data in exchange for a paycheck,’” she said. Legal protections against worker surveillance State-level protections against worker surveillance vary, and Ajunwa and her co-authors of a 2017 paper argued that “we cannot depend on each individual state’s legislature to accomplish — piecemeal — the work of protecting workers.”
“I’m confident that a technically sophisticated employer or IT department can readily set up surveillance features on devices that users won’t be able to locate,” he added, “especially if they aren’t given administrative access.” Slack updated its privacy policy last year to allow employers subscribing to its premium plans to download workers’ private messages without their knowledge. Not even your Slack messages are sacred: The workplace-software company updated its privacy policy last year to allow employers subscribing to its premium plans to download workers’ private messages without their knowledge.
Is there tracking software on your company computer or phone? Is your email being logged? What employee data is being collected or stored? And who has access to employee data? The same goes for using email. “One mistake [people] often make is treating their corporate email as their personal email,” Li said.
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