A study conducted by Vanderbilt, Northeastern and UC Berkeley universities found that nine widely used workplace monitoring platforms consistently shared personal data, including names and email addresses, with external companies. The investigation documented 121 instances of data sharing with Facebook, Google, Microsoft and AppLovin, as well as the transmission of workers’ online activity information to 145 third-party domains, including the Russian search engine Yandex. One-third of the tested platforms allowed precise location tracking of employees even when off duty. Concrete examples show that these tools were used to monitor teachers, pharmacists and warehouse workers, raising serious concerns about employee privacy.
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