Privacy International and UCL student exposes how productivity suite like Office 365 offers features that can enable employers to access all communications and activities on Microsoft services without the employees’ knowledge
KEY FINDINGS
- Working from home bolstered the use of remote surveillance software to monitor employees.
- It’s not only tools that are developed specifically for surveillance, traditional productivity suites might also enable an intrusive level of monitoring.
- PI and UCL students looked into Office 365 and found features that can enable employers to access all communications and activities on Microsoft services
- These features can be operated without the employees’ knowledge and there seems to be a lack of transparency for users in terms of what data is collected and for what purpose