Labour Party urges UK data watchdog to update its Code of Employment Practices to tackle workplace snooping

Labour Party urges UK data watchdog to update its Code of Employment Practices to tackle workplace snooping

The UK's Information Commissioner's Office needs to update its Code of Employment Practices to tackle workplace spying by bosses, the Prospect trade union and the Labour Party have said.


The call for more regulation of workplace surveillance comes after recent reports of new gadgets designed to tell bosses whether their toiling underlings are happy or sad.

It also echoes previous calls by Prospect for stronger regulation of workplace surveillance tech.


Chi Onwurah MP, Labour's shadow digital minister, said today: "Ministers must urgently provide better regulatory oversight of online surveillance software to ensure people have the right to privacy whether in their workplace or home – which are increasingly one and the same."

Labour also wants the Information Commissioner's Of ..

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