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Your boss’s monitoring app didn’t just watch you, it shared your data to Facebook and a Russian search engine
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Key facts
- Separately, the nine apps sent workers’ online activity, IP addresses, device information, browsing data, to 145 third-party domains, among them Yandex, the Russian search company
- That investigation tested this firsthand: researchers signed up as an employer, deployed nine widely used monitoring platforms, including Hubstaff, Deputy and Time Doctor 2, then logged
- Pharmacist Lannie Duong’s job at a medical clinic involved meeting with patients who had chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and heart disease
- Some states, including New York, Connecticut, Delaware and Maine, require employers to notify workers if they’re being monitored
Summary
Thousands of employers are keeping tabs on the whereabouts, productivity and communications of workers with technology that was adopted widely during the coronavirus pandemic. Employers have always monitored workers, but recent advances in artificial intelligence and data science enable them to create extensive data sets or “dossiers” that can be used to punish workers or attempt to predict employee behavior, said Wilneida Negrón, director of research and policy at Coworker, a nonprofit that helps workers organize to improve working conditions. “Oftentimes, the workers with the least amount of power in the labor markets tend to be testing grounds for some of the more intrusive forms of data collection,” Negrón said.