MPs: Employers Shouldn’t Use Tech to Spy on Staff Without Consent

New AI and Tech inquiry makes recommendations

A woman using a laptop on a dining room table set up as a remote office to work from home, in the United Kingdom on March 3, 2020. Joe Giddens/PA

Employers should be banned from using computers and artificial intelligence (AI) to spy on workers without their consent, MPs have recommended.

A new report (pdf) by the Commons Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) committee raises concerns over the remote monitoring of staff which it says puts people’s data at risk.