You might not know that it's there. Its goal is to spy on you.

I get it. We all love free stuff. Maybe your employer just handed you a phone or a laptop.

Lucky me, you said, wow, this is wonderful. You just got a gadget worth $1,000 all without

spending a dime. But remember, nothing in life is free. Every gift comes with strings,

and in this case, you might be paying with your privacy. Let me explain. Say your boss hands you a laptop

or even a wearable device to track your movement. When you accept any device from your job,

you should expect some level of surveillance. All the data from your gadget has to flow somewhere. And more

often than not, it's following back to somebody's databases, maybe even your companies. That's right.

Someone could be keeping track of every keystroke, every step that you take. This is actually a huge

problem. Now that countless people are working from home and using company-provided laptops

and phones, we're seeing the startling rise of something that's called bossware. Okay, never

heard of that before? It covers all the apps, gadgets, and software to watch over workers,

primarily those working from home. At first glance, it does make sense. Managers want to make sure that their

workers aren't munking around when they should be doing their job. But of course, it's not that

simple, especially when it comes to cybersecurity. There are a ton of different opinions on employee

monitoring. Some see it as a necessary evil. Others say it's just a huge invasion. But

regardless of which you think, we can't avoid the facts. Bossware puts workers at a big risk.

And I'm not talking about all the fishing attempts that can take down people's devices and accounts.

And if you're working from home and attack on a company-owned device that you're using

could actually get into your home network and all your devices and all your files and everything

attached to it. What I'm talking about here is invasive time tracking and productivity tools.

It can completely invade people's boundaries. Let me give you an example. Back in 2013, BP America started handing out Fitbit

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