In today’s hybrid and remote work environment, organizations are increasingly turning to digital employee management platforms that promise productivity insights, compliance enforcement, and even behavioral analytics. These tools—offered by a growing number of vendors—can monitor everything from application usage and website visits to keystrokes, idle time, and screen recordings. Some go further, offering video capture
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Out of Sight is Not Out of Mind – Monitoring Workers Working From Home
Just over a month ago, we provided a high-level checklist to help organizations think about critical issues as employees begin working from home to reduce the spread of COVID19. Consistent with “shelter-in-place”/”stay at home” orders, millions of workers that can are now working from home. However, out of sight is not out mind as many…
Keyloggers Beware–Companies Risk Being Sued By Employees
By Jason C. Gavejian on
Posted in Workplace Privacy
A U.S. District Court in Indiana has ruled that a company’s use of keylogger software to access an employee’s personal e-mail account may have violated the Stored Communications Act (“SCA”).
Keylogging or keystroke logging is the tracking of the keys struck on a keyboard, typically in a covert manner.
In Rene v. G.F. Fishers, Inc.…