New Delhi, May 24 -- The app your employer uses to track attendance, productivity or work hours could also be sending your data to tech giants like Google, Meta and Microsoft. A new study has found that these workplace monitoring apps, often referred to as "bossware", are also sharing employee data with digital advertising platforms and data brokers.

The research, conducted by researchers from Columbia Law School, Northeastern University, Vanderbilt University and University of California, Berkeley, examined nine widely used "bossware" platforms, including Hubstaff, Time Doctor and Deputy. These apps allow employers to track employee activity such as work hours, screenshots, keyboard and mouse usage, location data, app activity and other...