Touring a Rental? A Face Scan May Be Required – The Markup
Many property owners first turned to face scans during the pandemic to take some risk out of allowing self-guided tours…. read more
‘Bossware is coming for almost every worker’: the software you might not realize is watching you – The Guardian
The number and array of tools now on offer to continuously monitor employees’ digital activity and provide feedback to managers… read more
Colleges That Require Virus-Screening Tech Struggle to Say Whether It Works – NYTimes
The University of Idaho is one of hundreds of colleges and universities that adopted fever scanners, symptom checkers, wearable heart-rate… read more
Who’s watching? How governments used the pandemic to normalize surveillance – LATimes
Sensors, meters and cameras inside and outside will hum in around-the-clock surveillance. The technology-laden “smart city” being built on the… read more
“I tried ‘eye yoga’ to relieve the strain WFH is putting on my eyes – and this is what happened.” – Stylist
“Spending all day staring at the screen can cause computer vision syndrome, which is also known as digital eye strain,”… read more
Data Broker Veraset Gave Bulk Device-Level GPS Data to DC Government – EFF
This is far from the only instance of data sharing between private location data brokers and government agencies. Reports at… read more
‘The way my boss monitored me at home was creepy’ – BBC
The pandemic forced millions of people, who previously carried out most or all of their work in the office, to… read more
Exclusive Data: An Inside Look at the Spy Tech That Followed Kids Home for Remote Learning — and Now Won’t Leave – The 74
The data, gleaned from those 1,300 incident reports in the first six months of the crisis, highlight how Gaggle’s team… read more
Zoom dysmorphia is following us into the real world – Wired
In the age of Zoom, people became inordinately preoccupied with sagging skin around their neck and jowls; with the size… read more
Trust Students, Suspect Algorithms (Beauchamp, 2020)
When universities across the United States reacted to the coronavirus pandemic by shifting to remote instruction last spring, many of… read more