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The free tool below runs entirely in this browser — no account, nothing stored or transmitted. Redact anything you would not want kept before you type it.
Open the companion tool →Why the written question is worth sending
Employers who deploy monitoring tools usually have documentation: a privacy notice, a vendor page, an internal policy. Asking for it is ordinary and hard to refuse — and the reply becomes the reference point for everything afterwards.
The rule that matters most is purpose: monitoring data may be used for scheduling and quality, or it may be used for individual performance decisions. Those are different exposures, and the answer is usually in the policy rather than in the tool.
The protocol
- Write down what you have observed: a new app on the work laptop, a meeting tool that records, a dashboard you were asked to check, a scheduling system that seems to know your pace.
- Ask three questions in writing: what data is collected, who can view it, and what decisions it is used for.
- Ask separately whether the vendor has access to your data and how long it is retained.
- Check the employee handbook or privacy notice for the monitoring section, and note the date of the version you read.
- Keep the reply. If monitoring later feeds a performance decision, the record of what you were told is the first thing a labor authority or lawyer would ask for.
What the tool does
Describe the monitoring tools you have noticed and get a reading plus the three questions to send in writing. It runs in this browser; nothing is sent or stored.
Limit first: This is a question-preparation aid, not legal advice and not an investigation of your employer. Workplace monitoring rules vary by country, state, and contract.
Open the companion tool →One human next step
If the answer is that monitoring informs individual decisions and you were never told, that is worth raising with HR formally, and in many places with your labor authority or union representative. Keep your own record of dates and changes.
Research log and safety checks
AI-assist path: not used for a verdict. The reading organizes what the reader knows into questions a workplace can actually answer; the artifact that matters is their written reply, not a model's guess. §6.10: not a frontier-pace topic.
§0.5 protection result: category is job-skill-disruption; crisis-adjacent: no; fear/urgency/scarcity toolkit used: no. The protective function is free and the paid feature is convenience only.