Companies have a legitimate interest in monitoring the attendance and productivity of their employees. Modern tracking technologies support you in this. However, the risk of abuse is high, a study from Vienna warns of this worrying trend.
“As offices, buildings and other corporate facilities become connected environments, there is a growing desire among employers to use the data collected from their existing digital infrastructure or additional sensors for various purposes,” says the recently published study titled “Tracking Indoor Location, Movement and Desk Occupancy in the Workplace,” which explores how motion sensors and wireless networking technology are used in buildings. “This involves, intentionally or as a by-product, personal data about employees, their movements and their behavior.”
cause for concern
The research was conducted by Cracked Labs, a non-profit organization based in Vienna, as part of the ‘Surveillance and Digital Control at Work’ project funded by the Chamber of Labor. With the support of AlgorithmWatch, Jeremias Prassl (Oxford), UNI Europa and the Global Privacy Alliance, we investigate how companies in Europe handle personal data. The results are certainly cause for concern.
Source: Krone
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