Employers are spying on us at home with ‘tattleware’. It’s time to track them instead | Jessa Crispin

Delivery drivers and warehouse workers are already monitored relentlessly. Now white-collar employees are getting a taste of surveillance capitalism

The corporate handwringing started at almost the same time as the lockdown orders: But if all of our workers are at home, where we can't see them, how can we possibly know that they're actually working?"

Leave it to the tech creeps to figure out a solution to reassure your boss, miles away, that you are indeed doing what you are being paid to do. Writing in the Guardian, Sandy Milne recently reported on the rise of bossware" or tattleware", essentially spyware that enables managers to monitor their employees working from home. That includes a new program called Sneek, which uses your webcam to take a photo of you about once a minute and makes it available to your supervisor, to prove that you are not away from your desk doing God knows what. You're not warned in advance, so the photograph that Sneek takes can catch you doing pretty much anything - picking spinach out of your teeth, smelling your own armpit, or any of the other totally normal things human beings do when alone but that no one really wants documented and distributed. It's a level of invasion that would horrify even the NSA.