User:Ethan Toomey/Surveillance

Corporate
Corporate surveillance also includes the monitoring of employees, and through the COVID-19 Pandemic with nearly one third of the US workforce working from home, has allowed companies to reach further into peoples privacy. Some cases of this include employers instructing employees to have their webcams always-on, holding virtual 'water cooler' breaks, or even going as far to install Employee monitoring software on the devices of all employees working from home, to see what is being displayed on the screen, what amount of time is spent doing work, specific keystrokes, web history, email logging, etc. The ethical arguments as to whether or not this behavior being seen by employers should be accepted and normalized have been raised, although the behavior itself is not illegal in nature. There are very little legal protections against this in law, at a Federal level or otherwise, for the workers who've been subjected to this kind of surveillance.