![]() ![]() While your boss monitoring your every move is definitely creepy, it's perfectly legal. ![]() "It can see into everything from what apps an employee has open to with whom they're chatting to, what they're saying."įor anyone who has ever checked a personal email, bank account balance, or the results of a medical test on a work computer, the above described scenario is a nightmare. "Once an incognito agent is installed on a machine (sometimes hidden in the Running Processes list under disguised names), the most powerful employee monitoring tools can act as an all-seeing eye," notes the product review (opens in a new tab). Of the ten "employee monitoring tools " examined, seven offer "keystroke recording," and nine allow the employer to take screenshots of a worker's computer screen. PCMag (which, like Mashable, is owned by Ziff Davis), published a review (opens in a new tab) of this type of software earlier this year. Keyloggers are a particularly invasive type of corporate monitoring software designed to keep tabs on employees' actions, but are far from the only kind. In the aggregate, they can record everything from the content of the emails you write, to your passwords, to any personal chats you have in a corporate Slack or private social media account accessed from your work desk. A keylogger is a generic term for piece of software that runs in the background of a computer and literally records every single key you press, often along with every mouse click you make. If you're not very familiar with keyloggers, don't fret, many people aren't. And yet, the true threat often lurks undetected behind the scenes: keyloggers recording your every keystroke and sending them away for upper management review. The struggle to avoid even accidentally clicking on NSFW material as we go about our busy office lives is, for many, all too familiar. Using an employer-issued computer comes with its own specific set of privacy risks. What happens on your keyboard does not stay on your keyboard. Privacy Please is an ongoing series exploring the ways privacy is violated in the modern world, and what can be done about it. ![]()
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