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Bank backs off program monitoring workers' bathroom breaks

| February 21, 2020 12:05 AM

LONDON (AP) — London-based bank Barclays backed away Thursday from a software program that monitored an employee's productivity - including bathroom breaks - after privacy campaigners described it as “creepy.’’

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