"To get into the office at the Commonwealth Bank, Chris* needs to use an app on his phone. It collects information on his location. Instead of having a key card that you use to tap on to get in, it's an app installed on your phone you've got to verify on a regular basis, the CBA employee says. Part of the installation is giving the permissions for the app to access certain features of your phone, one of which is your location."
"Chris, whose name has been changed, says the location information can be accessed by the bank and not only when using the app. We ask the bank: why is it doing this? And they say: Oh, when we designed the software, it's basically a thing that we have to do.' But we don't generally have any guarantee of how they're using it or when."
"A spokesperson for CBA said the app, Navigate, was not used to track staff. We use a CBA-dedicated mobile phone app that provides access to our corporate offices, they said. Navigate also shows where someone's laptop is connected to the network in that building, to better able our people to connect and collaborate with each other in the office. Chris is not convinced by CBA's reassurances that the data collected by the app won't be used for purposes other than those outlined by the bank."
A Commonwealth Bank employee must use a mobile app, Navigate, to access offices; the app requires permissions that collect location and device-network information. The bank says the app provides access to corporate offices and helps show where laptops connect to the office network to aid collaboration, and denies using Navigate to track staff. Employees remain uncertain about exactly what data is gathered and when the bank can access it. Legal protections are limited because employee data collected in the course of work may be excluded from privacy law, and academic research finds growing employer collection of personal worker data with little protection.
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