Employment Law and Drone Surveillance
Kilgore Law has posted an article by Bob Goodman titled “Employment Law and Drone Surveillance, What We Have to Look Forward To, A Work of Fiction.”
It was easier before the Supreme Court reconsidered its 2015 decision that drone surveillance by private employers of their employees was not illegal because it was not governmental, the article says. Now, in 2018, according to the Supreme Court, there had to be some reason to believe an employee was doing something against the employer’s interest to justify drone surveillance of that employee. That was a low standard, about as far from probable cause as you could get, but it still required a form to be filled out for any drone surveillance, even if it only involved the employee’s office or cubicle, and not also following the employee around all day and into his home.
The heaviest requirements were, in fact, imposed when a drone to follow the employee home was at issue.
