Ashley M. Gjøvik, JD @ashleygjovik@mastodon.social
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🧵 In 2023, US gov asked for public comment on employer surveillance. I filed a formal comment abt my experience at Apple. I just discovered a 2024 GAO report to Congress that includes my input — including Apple firing me after I raised privacy concerns.

The White House OSTP RFI was titled “Automated Worker Surveillance and Management.”

It asked workers to share how companies were using tools like biometrics, facial recognition, and employee monitoring software. ⬇️

Office of Science and Technology Policy AGENCY: Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). ACTION: Notice of request for information (RFI). SUMMARY: Employers are increasingly using automated systems to monitor, manage, and evaluate their workers. These systems may allow employers to manage supply chains, improve health and safety, or make other informed business decisions. At the same time, applications of surveillance and monitoring systems can also pose risks to workers, including to their health and safety, equal employment opportunities, privacy, ability to meet critical needs, access to workplace accommodations, and exercise of workplace and labor rights, including their rights to form or join a labor union. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) seeks comments from the public to better understand automated surveillance and management of workers, including its prevalence, purposes, deployment, and impacts, as well as opportunities for Federal agencies to work with employers, workers, and other stakeholders to ensure that these systems do not undermine workers' rights, opportunities, access, health, or safety.
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