Subjecting Workers To Webcam Monitoring Violates Privacy, Dutch Court Rules

A Florida-headquartered company has been ordered to pay about $73,000 in compensation and other fees after firing a Netherlands-based remote worker who refused to keep their webcam on all day, NL Times reports. The Verge: The company, Chetu, said the unnamed employee was required to attend a virtual classroom with their webcam turned on for the entire day and their screen remotely monitored. But when the employee refused, saying that leaving their webcam on for "9 hours a day" made them feel uncomfortable and was an invasion of their privacy, the company dismissed them, citing aoerefusal to worka and "insubordination."

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