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ARTICLE · 10 NOVEMBER 2017

Wearable Surveillance In The Workplace

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The Investigation Report provides important insight for employers with respect to the intersection of privacy rights and video surveillance in the workplace.

CanadaEmployment and HR
Rob Sider
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 On November 8, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia ("OIPC") issued an investigation report regarding the use of employee video surveillance in the workplace (the " Investigation Report"). The Investigation Report provides important insight for employers with respect to the intersection of privacy rights and video surveillance in the workplace.

The OIPC conducted an investigation in response to a "chicken catching" company requiring its employees to wear camera/video-recording devices as they worked. The company instituted the requirement in response to widespread media coverage of the company's employees engaging in animal abuse. The company stopped requiring its employees to wear the cameras as soon as the OIPC started its investigation.

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