On March 30, British Columbia's Information and Privacy Commissioner released an investigative report finding that a municipality should disable some features of its employee monitoring software, which allowed the employer to log keystrokes, obtain automated screenshots, and continuously track computer program activity, because the usage violated the privacy rights of employees under the provincial Freedom of Information and Privacy Protection Act. The report also recommended that the municipality destroy all data collected by the software.
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