Data and Algorithms at Work: The Case for Worker

The goal of this report is to give policymakers and other stakeholders an understanding of trends in the data-driven workplace and a framework of the technology rights that workers need and deserve. [...] This should include a description of which activities will be monitored, the method of monitoring, the data that will be gathered, the times and places where the monitoring will occur, and the purpose for monitoring and why it is necessary. [...] To minimize matters, they listen to us through potential exposure and harm to workers, monitoring the bus cameras, and that they should affect the smallest number of workers possible, use the cameras to read our text should collect the least amount of data necessary, and messages when we are parked should be the least invasive means for accomplishing and using our phones while the its purpose.79 P. [...] Unions should have access to the information necessary to fully understand the nature, scope, and effects of data-driven technologies used by the employer, and the employer should be required to bargain in good faith over them.86 Even when they are not represented by a union, workers should have the right to organize around the use of data-driven technologies in their workplace. [...] This is especially the case when it comes to the use of data-driven technologies, where the asymmetry of power and information between workers and employers is pronounced and where the incentives for employers to misuse opaque technologies are strong.