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Commentary: There’s probably creepy software on your work laptop Mark A. Stein, Rate.com Last April, just as employers had sent millions of office employees home to work remotely, they went on a buying binge of creepy software with names like Controlio, Sneek and StaffCop the better to monitor your every keystroke from afar. Orders for such programs soared 87% in April. These kinds of software programs enable your employer to: Read your email Collect screenshots of what you look at Watch you via your laptop’s camera Log every keystroke, including, in some cases, the time between keystrokes when you – oh, I don’t know, go down the hall to the bathroom or fix yourself a sandwich. ....