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With AI, workplace surveillance has ‘skyrocketed’—leaving Canadian laws behind

Employee surveillance can look like a warehouse worker with a mini-computer on their arm
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Employee surveillance technology, now turbocharged thanks to artificial intelligence, is being deployed—leaving Canadian laws to play catch up. Remote controlled cameras mounted on a pole are shown at the CANSEC trade show, in Ottawa, on Wednesday, May 31, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

Technology that tracks your location at work and the time you’re spending in the bathroom. A program that takes random screenshots of your laptop screen. A monitoring system that detects your mood during your shift.

These are just some ways employee surveillance technology — now turbocharged, thanks to the explosive growth of artificial intelligence — is being deployed.

Canada’s laws aren’t keeping up, experts warn.

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