> Taking screenshots of desktops at random intervals? Could be a huge liability if you capture some confidential information and the screenshots go into an unmanaged data dump.

I'd just have a fully naked picture of myself in the corner of my screen at all times :D

> Activating the camera or mic without consent?

Creepy

> What about recording which websites are visited on a work device?

Creepy

> Taking screenshots of desktops at random intervals?

Creepy

Don't hire people if you don't trust people. Monitor their output not their process

I agree in principle but there's context to this discussion. I've had people argue (to be clear, on work provided computers) that having EDR software phone home with "User downloaded free-movies-mp4.exe and it contained ransomware" is a massive privacy violation. There's got to be an acceptable limit.

Logging DNS traffic is valuable during a security investigation. Depending on your company’s acceptable use policy, no one cares that you are on Reddit.

Monitoring Remote Desktop sessions either by random interval screenshots or screen recording is valuable when you have vendors/contractors connecting to your net. IMO, this is unacceptable for normal employee workstations.

Turning on the mic or webcam is a major violation of privacy. If your doing something SO important/secret/critical that you need to monitor the person doing it you should not be working remotely to begin with.

I'm not using employer provided DNS servers either haha

Monitoring the camera and monitoring the mic without consent are different areas legally. Photo/video recording is permitted in many circumstances. Recording from the microphone falls under old Federal wiretapping laws. It's why you never see professional security cameras with microphones on them.