Workplace Surveillance Tools Track US Workers' Location, Output, Communications

Thousands of US employers now use AI-driven "bossware" to monitor workers' locations, task speeds, phone calls and private messages, often via work-issued cameras, and some share this data with outside brokers without clear disclosure. Reported cases include a pharmacist penalized for spending too long with patients and an instructor whose private comments to students were read by administrators. This expansion of pandemic-era monitoring into pervasive, largely unregulated data collection reflects a broader normalization of constant automated observation over private conduct and communication.