You are hired as the Chief Privacy Officer of Faster&Faster…
You are hired as the Chief Privacy Officer of Faster&Faster Delivery, a company based in Chicago, Illinois, which has ten warehouses located throughout the state. After the company’s CEO learns that the U.S. Congress is considering a bill known as the “Anti-Employer Surveillance Act,” which would prohibit employers from utilizing certain surveillance tools that use artificial intelligence, the CEO asks you to review the company’s current employee monitoring practices for any potential violations of existing federal or state laws. After investigating the current practices of the company, you become aware that Faster&Faster Delivery is using an employee-monitoring tool that records the video and audio of employees while on-site at the company’s warehouses. The tool utilizes artificial intelligence to identify the faces of individual employees and then to calculate for each identified employee the daily percentage of conversations that are not work related. Your investigation also reveals that employees who work in the warehouses are not informed of this employee-monitoring tool and only top-level executives receive the reports generated by the tool. Based on your investigation, your response to the CEO is: