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The debate over workers' electronic privacy is dying right when it’s needed most
This was supposed to be the year employees finally obtained some privacy rights. Thanks to the COVID-19 crisis, they're getting the opposite.

Instead of 2020 being the year of debating employee data privacy in California, it's become the year of thermal temperature scanners, software that monitors remote workers' keystrokes and wearable devices tracking employees' locations.
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