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Webcam monitoring violates human rights, Dutch court says (TechCrunch)

October 10, 2022

Chetu, a Florida-based telemarketer, demanded a worker in the Netherlands turn on his webcam for nine hours per day and fired him when he refused, but a Dutch court later ruled against the firm, according to a report in TechCrunch. The Dutch court’s ruling suggested the required use of webcams to monitor workers violates human rights. In court documents cited in the report, the worker said he felt the requirement was an invasion of privacy and suggested the company was already able to monitor all activities on his laptop and he was sharing his screen.