Somebody (You Work for) Is Watching You
We write a lot about privacy—especially in recent years, as technology enables more and more ways to eradicate it. Privacy is a huge topic, of course, encompassing personal data collection and marketing, location tracking, facial recognition, smart speakers that can record you in your home, and networked video cameras that record you everywhere else. In our February cover story, “The Quantified Employee,” author Chandra Steele narrows in on privacy in the workplace; specifically, on worker surveillance by employers and the shiny new ways it’s accomplished. If you thought the boss reading employees’ email or checking out their social media was invasive, try being outfitted with data-collecting wearables and even microchips. And yep, the latter is already happening. Even if your employer isn’t forcing you to wear a monitoring device, chances are good…
