Your right to privacy underpins your rights to safety and freedom from arbitrary harassment and discrimination.
Our right to privacy has never been under greater threat than it is now. The increasing sophistication of surveillance technologies presents both threats to our privacy, and opportunities to better protect it.
Increasing government surveillance occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic including digital contact tracing and visitor registration records has revealed our increasing vulnerability to breaches of our right to privacy.
Working from home has opened a wealth of opportunities for breaches of privacy, with employers imposing spyware known as ‘bossware’ on employee devices under the guise of ‘productivity monitoring’. To better understand how working from home leads to breaches of privacy, Aequitas is partnering with academic institutions to conduct research on the extent and impacts of bossware on employees. This research will inform advocacy for law reform to better regulate surveillance in the home, and form the basis of litigation to seek remedy for breaches of employee privacy. If you feel that your rights have been breached by your employer, please reach out to us using the form below.
