Activating the camera or mic without consent? Yeah, that’s bad.
What about recording which websites are visited on a work device? Not so unreasonable.
Taking screenshots of desktops at random intervals? Could be a huge liability if you capture some confidential information and the screenshots go into an unmanaged data dump.
I'd just have a fully naked picture of myself in the corner of my screen at all times :D
Creepy
> What about recording which websites are visited on a work device?
Creepy
> Taking screenshots of desktops at random intervals?
Creepy
Don't hire people if you don't trust people. Monitor their output not their process
Monitoring Remote Desktop sessions either by random interval screenshots or screen recording is valuable when you have vendors/contractors connecting to your net. IMO, this is unacceptable for normal employee workstations.
Turning on the mic or webcam is a major violation of privacy. If your doing something SO important/secret/critical that you need to monitor the person doing it you should not be working remotely to begin with.