Ban On Corporate Cybersnooping Moves Forward In Australia

from the sounds-reasonable dept

Here’s a followup on a story from March about an anti-cybersnooping law in New South Wales, Australia. The government has now released a draft of the bill that would make it illegal to surreptitiously spy on employee computer usage, without “reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing.” Once again, studies have shown that such snooping is actually bad for business. It makes people less trusting, stresses them out and makes them less productive. That’s what you get when you treat all your employees as guilty until proven innocent, I guess.


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