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by ericjang 2251 days ago
Hypothetical question: if your employer offered you the option of extra compensation to install keyloggers/screen capture software on your work computer, and you know that the logs are only being used for aggregate productivity statistics of the firm (de-anonymized), how much do you think would be a fair price?

Assumption: you use a separate computer for your personal computing needs not related to work.

3 comments

If it's aggregate stats (assume you meant anonymized), I wouldn't care very much.

If someone was watching me without my knowledge, I'd like quit when I found out. (Or perhaps make their life hell.)

Employers should just fess up and state clearly that they are doing this. It's the coverup that's the problem.

I would decline, if it doubled my salary.

that is invasive, and they don't need the information.

if it was required, I would leave the company.

accept, reverse engineer, if data is aggregated - send spoofed randomised data, if not - just play back time I actually worked on slower speed and use a VM.

As for price, let them make an offer and see how valuable the data is for them.