#workplacesurveillance — Public Fediverse posts

Meta is installing tracking software on US employees' computers to capture mouse movements, keystrokes, and screen activity. This data trains AI agents designed to "primarily do the work" while humans "direct and review." The same 8,000 workers providing training data face layoffs starting May 20. The system runs only in the US - EU privacy laws would block it. A notable shift from AI-as-copilot to workers-as-trainers. #AI #WorkplaceSurveillance #TechLayoffs

https://www.implicator.ai/meta-lays-off-8-000-in-may-first-they-train-the-agents-that-replace-them/

Meta is installing tracking software on US employees' computers to capture mouse movements, keystrokes, and screen activity. This data trains AI agents designed to "primarily do the work" while humans "direct and review." The same 8,000 workers providing training data face layoffs starting May 20. The system runs only in the US - EU privacy laws would block it. A notable shift from AI-as-copilot to workers-as-trainers. #AI #WorkplaceSurveillance #TechLayoffs

https://www.implicator.ai/meta-lays-off-8-000-in-may-first-they-train-the-agents-that-replace-them/

Meta is installing tracking software on US employees' computers to capture mouse movements, keystrokes, and screen activity. This data trains AI agents designed to "primarily do the work" while humans "direct and review." The same 8,000 workers providing training data face layoffs starting May 20. The system runs only in the US - EU privacy laws would block it. A notable shift from AI-as-copilot to workers-as-trainers. #AI #WorkplaceSurveillance #TechLayoffs

https://www.implicator.ai/meta-lays-off-8-000-in-may-first-they-train-the-agents-that-replace-them/

Meta is installing tracking software on US employees' computers to capture mouse movements, keystrokes, and screen activity. This data trains AI agents designed to "primarily do the work" while humans "direct and review." The same 8,000 workers providing training data face layoffs starting May 20. The system runs only in the US - EU privacy laws would block it. A notable shift from AI-as-copilot to workers-as-trainers. #AI #WorkplaceSurveillance #TechLayoffs

https://www.implicator.ai/meta-lays-off-8-000-in-may-first-they-train-the-agents-that-replace-them/

Meta is installing tracking software on US employees' computers to capture mouse movements, keystrokes, and screen activity. This data trains AI agents designed to "primarily do the work" while humans "direct and review." The same 8,000 workers providing training data face layoffs starting May 20. The system runs only in the US - EU privacy laws would block it. A notable shift from AI-as-copilot to workers-as-trainers. #AI #WorkplaceSurveillance #TechLayoffs

https://www.implicator.ai/meta-lays-off-8-000-in-may-first-they-train-the-agents-that-replace-them/

This article in the series “What Everybody Knows About You” by Andrew Oram dives into how employers can track employees’ activity, location, and behavior through workplace #surveillance and #data collection.

Read it here: https://lpi.org/iqa9

[Disclaimer: This post includes an image created using AI.]

#dataprivacy #employeemonitoring #workplacesurveillance #digitalrights #datacollection #whateverybodyknowsaboutyou #surveillance

Microsoft’s New Workplace Tracking Tools Spark New Privacy Debate

#Microsoft #Microsoft365 #AI #Privacy #Copilot #MicrosoftTeams #WorkplaceSurveillance #VivaInsights #BigTech #EmployeeMonitoring #CorporateCulture #HybridWork #DataPrivacy

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/10/23/microsofts-new-workplace-tracking-tools-spark-new-privacy-debate-xcxwbn

Tracking apps monitor remote employees’ performance — and invade their privacy
#Tech #Business #EmployeeMonitoring #RemoteWork #WorkplaceSurveillance #PrivacyRights #DigitalTracking #WorkerPrivacy #SurveillanceTech #EMAs #WorkFromHome #DataPrivacy
https://the-14.com/tracking-apps-monitor-remote-employees-performance-and-invade-their-privacy/

"You mention the manager wants to see if the employee is really working, I mean, is the manager really working if they're just looking at these screenshots [of employees' desktops] all day?"

#JonathanGood, 2025

https://nz-tech-podcast.captivate.fm/episode/exploring-real-time-chemical-sensing-with-scentian-bio

#podcasts #GorillaTechnology #NZTech #BossWare #WorkplaceSurveillance

Workplace Monitoring App WorkComposer Leaks 21 Million Employee Surveillance Screenshots

#Cybersecurity #WorkComposer #DataBreach #DataLeak #Privacy #EmployeeMonitoring #WorkplaceSurveillance #CloudSecurity #S3 #InfoSec #DataSecurity

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/04/28/workplace-monitoring-app-workcomposer-leaks-21-million-employee-surveillance-screenshots-xcxwbn/

Today: Former FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya’s testimony on AI and labor issues, and connections to public policy and worker rights.

House Judiciary Committee hearing on 'Artifcial Intelligence: Examining Trends in Innovation and Competition", April 2, 2025.

#AIandWork #ArtificialIntelligence #WorkplaceSurveillance #AutomatedFiring #DigitalRights #FutureOfWork #AIinTheWorkplace #LaborRights #TechAccountability #EthicalAI #alvaroBedoya #houseJudiciary

New survey: 68% of U.S. workers report some form of #ElectronicMonitoring, and 4 in 10 have tasks or schedules assigned by automated systems. Data also show these technologies are linked to negative #HealthAndSafety outcomes. #WorkplaceSurveillance #FutureOfWork
https://equitablegrowth.org/research-paper/estimating-the-prevalence-of-automated-management-and-surveillance-technologies-at-work-and-their-impact-on-workers-well-being/

#Surveillance #Bossware #WorkplaceSurveillance #Privacy: "Learning, growth, and fulfillment all require a zone of privacy, a time and place where we are not observed. Far from making us accountable, continuous, fine-grained surveillance by authority figures just scares us into living a cramped, inauthentic version of ourselves, where growth is all but impossible. Others have observed the role this plays in right-wing culture war bullshit: "an armed society is a polite society" is code for "people who make me feel uncomfortable just by existing should be terrorized into hiding their authentic selves from me." The point of Don't Say Gay laws and anti-trans bills isn't to eliminate gender nonconformity – it's to drive it into hiding.

Given all this, it's no surprise that workers who face workplace surveillance in the name of "wellness" feel unwell as a result:" https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/15/wellness-taylorism/#sick-of-spying

Reading about AI surveillance of workers makes me wonder how that can be effective. Constant surveillance doesn't turn me into a top performer if I find the workplace demotivating. It would make me miserable and question the company.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/07/artificial-intelligence-surveillance-workers
#AI #HRPolicy #workplacesurveillance

#Surveillance #WorkplaceSurveillance #AI #AlgorithmicManagement: : "Data collection in the workplace has become ubiquitous. Employers use a growing number of information systems to plan, organize and manage workflows and work performed by their employees, most prominently systems for enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM), which are now used by mid- to large-size organizations in most industries. Many systems constantly store digital records about work activities and behaviors of employees. This data is increasingly stored in centralized databases and in the cloud. Employers exploit the data to support managerial decisions, organize work, automate workflows and monitor workers. The technical systems in place are often complex and opaque. Most workers will not be aware of the data flows and decisions that occur in the background while they routinely interact with networked software and devices at work.

This case study explores, examines and documents software systems and technologies used by employers that utilize extensive personal data about the work activities and behaviors of employees to streamline, reorganize and manage work, expand control over workers, subject them to digital monitoring and make automated decisions about them – with a focus on Europe. To illustrate wider practices, it investigates cloud-based software for enterprise data analytics, workflow automation and algorithmic management provided by the German vendor Celonis, based on a detailed analysis of software documentation and other corporate sources."

https://crackedlabs.org/en/data-work/publications/processmining-algomanage/

I've been tracking the rise in employee monitoring software since the start of the pandemic. I just pushed live and update with the latest data https://www.top10vpn.com/research/covid-employee-surveillance #privacy #employeesurveillance #employeemonitoring #workplacesurveillance