Employee monitoring

Monitoring staff for security purposes is lawful and constrained: it has to be necessary, proportionate and transparent.

The security value is real, and so is the obligation to tell people, limit the scope and justify the intrusion. Blanket monitoring justified by a general security interest tends not to survive scrutiny. It is also worth noticing the effect on the relationship, which is rarely counted as a cost.

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