Does your employer have to inform you before installing spyware on your work devices? “This would almost certainly be unlawful under data protection law and might well amount to a breach of the employer’s implied duty of trust and confidence,” explains Susan Kelly, partner at Winckworth Sherwood. “Employers are only allowed to monitor employees’ actions to prevent certain types of liability arising and by means of specific policies of which employees are made aware.”
Read the rest of Susan’s comments to Refinery29 in “I Believe My Boss Spied On Me At Work” – The New WFH Concern