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Privacy risks and solutions for employees during COVID

Privacy risks and solutions for employees during COVID

From the course: Privacy in the New World of Work

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Privacy risks and solutions for employees during COVID

- For many of us, COVID has brought the opportunity to work from home. And while that has allowed us the benefit of taking work meetings in our pajama bottoms, it has also raised some serious challenges. One of those challenges is the impact of bringing our public work lives into our private home lives. Beyond just the risk of having your children or a roommate walk by the screen and do something crazy while you're on with your boss, there is the very real possibility of your employer monitoring you. Some of the ways employers can do this is by keeping track of what you type, recording your internet activity, taking screenshots of you during a conference call, using your device's webcam to determine when you've stepped away from your computer, tracking you when you access files, monitoring your physical location using GPS, even measuring your productivity, such as noting a computer's idle time or how long an app or…

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