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A telemarketer refused to keep his webcam on for nine hours a day while working from home and was fired the next day — a Dutch court ruled the demand invaded his privacy and ordered his employer to pay him roughly €75,000

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A telemarketer refused to keep his webcam on for nine hours a day while working from home and was fired the next day — a Dutch court ruled the demand invaded his privacy and ordered his employer to pay him roughly €75,000
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A camera that stayed switched off cost a Florida software company about 75,000 euros.
It belonged to a telemarketer working from the small Dutch town of Diessen, employed since January 2019 by Chetu, an American software firm that at the time ran a Dutch office in Rijswijk. On 23 August 2022 he was told to join something called the Corrective Action Program, which meant staying logged in for his whole shift, sharing his screen and leaving his laptop camera on. He shared the screen. The camera st

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