Surreptitious employee monitoring found illegal under Alberta law

In a June 24th decision, the Alberta Privacy Commissioner found that an employer's surreptitious use of keystroke logging to monitor an employee's computer use violated the Alberta Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, because both the covert nature of the monitoring and the extensive information collected were unecessary for the purpose of managing the employee.

• CIPPIC News Release
• Dan Armeneau (the complainant)'s blog.