Every Employee Monitoring Tool Quietly Shares Worker Data With Tech Giants, Study Finds

A comprehensive study of nine workplace monitoring tools revealed that all of them share employee data with Meta, Google, Microsoft, and other third parties—far beyond what workers realize. This pervasive data sharing practice represents a significant privacy breach affecting hundreds of thousands of workplaces worldwide, with sensitive information ranging from email addresses to web browsing history being diverted to advertising platforms and data brokers. The findings highlight an urgent need for stronger regulatory oversight and transparency requirements in the workplace surveillance industry.