Is Your Boss Watching Your Face? The Next Frontier of Workplace Surveillance

Big Tech is quietly patenting facial emotion tracking—and your everyday desktop could be the next testing ground for workplace AI surveillance.

BY CHLOE ROSENBERG, FREELANCE WRITER

If you work for a large company in the U.S., odds are that your employer is watching you work even when you’re at home. 

According to research firm Gartner, 60 percent of large employers track their workers using “bossware,” technology that surveils employees’ keystrokes, desktops, and location data. Spurred on by the Covid-19 pandemic and the explosive growth of AI, this surveillance has become an unavoidable part of the workplace for millions of........

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