Australian woman discovers her manager has been secretly screenshotting and saving cropped images of her face during video calls for six months
Source: Yahoo News
Published on: 2026-10-31 14:59
A routine search for a document on a shared drive turned up something nobody was looking for, specifically a folder full of six months' worth of cropped screenshots of one employee's face, all taken by her manager during daily video calls. Video calls come with a reasonable social contract. You show up, you participate, you occasionally look away to take a note, and when it's over, everyone moves on with their day. Nobody signs up for the part where their manager is quietly cropping screenshots of their face and saving them to a folder for six months. Does my manager have the right to secretly take screenshots of my face during video calls? The folder name alone is doing a lot of work here. Calling it something like Meeting Snaps suggests enough comfort with the activity to give it an organized home on a shared drive, which is a level of confidence in the behavior that the behavior pr...
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