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Here is something that stops most HR leaders cold when they hear it for the first time: the same federal law Congress passed in 1970 to stop credit bureaus from maintaining secret dossiers on consumers — a law that most employment lawyers associate with background checks before someone is hired — almost certainly applies to the third-party productivity monitoring platform your managers are reviewing every morning.