Employee Monitors and Big Brother at Work

James J. Ward
7 min readApr 3, 2019

Although we consistently discuss the importance of managing data about customers or partners, it’s crucial to pay attention to a key demographic of your intrinsic datasets — employees. Your team generates an enormous volume of data simply by showing up to the office (HR data, payment information, personal login details and passwords, etc), and the work that they do, in many ways, generates the information that drives your business. Understanding how their work affects dataflows at the company is not only appropriate, it’s extremely helpful, and can unlock new ways to achieve…

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James J. Ward

Privacy lawyer, data nerd, fan of listing three things. Co-author of “Data Leverage.” Nothing posted is legal advice/don’t get legal advice from blogs.