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Monday, November 07, 2022

Regulating Bossware

 Had not seen this term for some time, but it is real. Can be more powerful now. Gvt regulation? 

ACM NEWS

U.S. Government to Crack Down on "Bossware" That Spies On Employees' Computers

By Futurism, November 7, 2022

The use and abuse of worker surveillance tech in general — not just bossware — has been "growing by the minute," said Mark Gaston Pearce, executive director of the Workers' Rights Institute at Georgetown Law School.

Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic drove a wave of working from home, companies have been relentless in their efforts to digitally police and spy on remote employees by using what's known as "bossware." That's the pejorative name for software that tracks the websites an employee visits, screenshots their computer screens, and even records their faces and voices.

And now, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), an agency of the federal government, is looking to intervene.

"Close, constant surveillance and management through electronic means threaten employees' basic ability to exercise their rights," said NLRB general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo, in a Monday memo. "I plan to urge the Board to apply the Act to protect employees, to the greatest extent possible, from intrusive or abusive electronic monitoring and automated management practices."

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