While privacy regulations like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) have imposed comprehensive restrictions around the ways businesses treat consumer data, they are leaving employee information relatively untouched.

Times, though, may be changing. Following a one-year moratorium, employee data will officially fall subject to the protections afforded other types of personal data under the forthcoming California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA). The switch could potentially trigger a whole new set of complications for employers making use of advanced technologies to track employee productivity in the office.

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