How much is your company spying on you? You now have the right to know

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The law now requires many Ontario companies to disclose how they track workers. Critics say that’s not enough.

A new provision of Ontario’s Employment Standards Act took effect Tuesday, meaning if you work at a company with 25 or more employees, your employer has to tell you exactly how it’s electronically monitoring you and why.

“It really is just the very first step. Because what workers need is some reasonable protections from the surveillance itself, if or when it crosses the boundary between a valid employer need and oppressive data scoop,” said Brenda McPhail, director of privacy, technology and surveillance at the Canadian Centre for Civil Liberties.

“We’ve all seen stories of people working from home and a screenshot being taken every 10 minutes, or people going to the washroom and employers monitoring how long they’re in the washroom. That’s not right,” said McNaughton. In the lead-up to the new provision coming into force, many employers were still trying to figure out exactly how much monitoring they did. Top executives don’t always have a solid grasp on just what their IT departments are able to do.

 

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criminal harassment is illegal. Employers hire people for specific duties

Anyone who thought this wasn't already happening is completely naive

Good. Should have done this a long time ago

Disclosure is not enough. We need limits.

Why, because you arent effective wfh. Get back to the workplace...

10 years ago all schools had electronic surveillance on portal for email and cameras in hallways. What is the big announcement? Also your phone at Rogers is monitored.

what does it matter , Canadian work places are toxic as any where despite all these laws , managers get away with murder

People should have full knowledge of any surveillance, period.

Employees in Ontario now have a right to know that their employers are spying on them Employees in Ontario do not have a right to opt out of being spied upon by their employers (or third parties doing the spying on behalf of their employers) surveillance privacy onpoli

More worried about the feds spying after they decided it’s cool to freeze protesters accounts

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This should be helpful for anyone streaming porn on their work devices.

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I don’t about that as long as I’m doing my job !

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