Outside of legality, you need to ask yourself if you are okay with your company going to that level of monitoring & inspection on what you are doing. Remote Access Tools remove all amounts of privacy that you may have.

I would ask your employer why they want to install the program on computers and also get clarification if they are doing it to all computers (including their own) or just a subset of people’s computers.

By the way, I personally recommend having a secondary device whether it’s your phone, tablet or additional computer and keep that on your desk to use during the work day as your personal device. Whether you want to look up a recipe for dinner, show time for a movie or send a personal message to a friend.. do it on that device. Never use your work computer for anything personal. Ever.

Ok, so if the employer says that everyone’s computers are having it installed.. and they want to install it so they can better see when people are working.. you can still dig in and ask whether they can’t see if people are working today by work activity and what they deliver.

Ultimately though, if they want to do it.. they’ll do it. You agree and allow it, or you disagree and either they don’t install it or you’re looking for a new job.

Determine what your boundaries are for personal space & privacy. If this crosses your boundaries (I’m guessing it likely does or will) then start looking for a new job. Be a model employee in the mean time but find a new place that trusts & respects you.