jbzđď¸âđ¨ď¸ Burger King will use AI to check if employees say âpleaseâ and âthank youâ | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/884911/burger-king-ai-assistant-patty
Accenture tells staffers: If you want a promotion, use AI at work
｢ A memo sent to senior staff this week, and reported in the FT, informed them that promotions to top roles at the corporation would necessitate "regular adoption" of AI tooling, and it is tracking usage ｣
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/20/accenture_tells_staffers_want_promotion/
Sudođď¸ EpisodeâŻ10 â The Tattleware Trap
We talk the whole Bossware ecosystem: HTTPS inspection that lets IT read your banking site, OCR screenshots that index every word on your screen, sentimentâanalysis bots that flag âunâhappyâ employees, and video that replays your last five minutes of âriskyâ activity
Want to survive the greenâdot anxiety? We share a handful of counterâmeasures
đ Listen now, stay skeptical, stay safe.
impracticalprivacy.com
The New Oil#ICE Seeks Cyber Upgrade to Better Surveil and Investigate Its Employees
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-seeks-cyber-upgrade-to-better-surveil-and-investigate-its-employees/
Maximilian Overdraft, Esq.@rperezrosario Android phone, Mint Linux at home and Windows at work. #bossware
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow â No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.Dec 9Pluralistic: Big Tech joins the race to build the world's heaviest airplane (09 Dec 2025)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/09/temporarily-embarrassed-founders/
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow â No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.Oct 23Pluralistic: Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs (23 Oct 2025)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/23/traveling-salesman-solution/
Real Syntacticeven in the relatively protected academic space, the employer can demand that I enable 2-factor identification and use my personal, out-of-pocket mobile to download an app that acts as a passkey. They can demand that I use uni records systems that require me to accept cookies and download apps onto my personal, out-of-pocket computer. They can require me to use a learning management system that logs my teaching-related online time. #bossware
From: @pluralistic
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115425290061414214
Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Amazon has invented a new kind of labor travesty: the chickenized reverse centaur. That's a worker who has to foot the bill to outfit a work environment where they nevertheless have no autonomy (chickenization) and whose body is conscripted to act as a peripheral for a digital system (reverse centaur): https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/algorithmic-wage-discrimination/#fishers-of-men 1/
PrivacyDigestA Third of #UK Firms Using 'Bossware' To #Monitor Workers' Activity, #Survey Reveals - Slashdot
#bossware #privacy #surveillance
A Third of UK Firms Using 'Bossware' To Monitor Workers' Activity, Survey Reveals - Slashdot
A third of UK employers are using "bossware" technology to track workers' activity with the most common methods including monitoring emails and web browsing. From a report: Private companies are most likely to deploy in-work surveillance and one in seven employers are recording or reviewing screen a...
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. đ¨đťâđťđ§ŹA third of #UK firms using â#bosswareâ to monitor #workersâ activity, survey reveals
Research suggests increase in office snooping is a trend that some #managers claim undermines trust with staff and is probably an underestimate, as roughly the same proportion said they don't know what tracking their organisations do.
Many monitoring systems are aimed at preventing insider threats and safeguarding sensitive information as well as detecting productivity dips.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/14/uk-firms-bossware-monitor-workers-activity
Research suggests increase in office snooping is a trend that some #managers claim undermines trust with staff and is probably an underestimate, as roughly the same proportion said they don't know what tracking their organisations do.
Many monitoring systems are aimed at preventing insider threats and safeguarding sensitive information as well as detecting productivity dips.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/14/uk-firms-bossware-monitor-workers-activity