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Beyond Privacy: Changing the Data Power Dynamics in the Workplace - LPE Project

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Matthew Bodie (@matthewtbodie) is the Robins Kaplan Professor at University of Minnesota Law School and coauthor of Reconstructing the Corporation: From Shareholder Primacy to Shared Governance. Matthew Bodie (@matthewtbodie) is the Robins Kaplan Professor at University of Minnesota Law School and coauthor of Reconstructing the Corporation: From Shareholder Primacy to Shared Governance. This post is part of a symposium on Worker Surveillance & Collective Resistance. Read the rest of the posts here. *** Workplace surveillance not only intrudes upon employees’ privacy—it is also a method of mass data collection and value creation. By generating huge data sets to feed increasingly sophisticated algorithms, employers draw even more value out of the employment relationship without any recourse or rights for those workers who provide the data in the first place. Because the power of these new Big Data systems comes from their scale, workers also need to scale up and wield their own collectiv

This post is part of a symposium on Worker Surveillance & Collective Resistance. Read the rest of the posts here . *** Workplace surveillance not only intrudes upon employees’ privacy—it is also a method of mass data collection and value creation. By generating huge data sets to feed increasingly sophisticated algorithms, employers draw even more value out of the employment relationship without any recourse or rights for those workers who provide the data in the first place. Because the power of these new Big Data systems comes from their scale, workers also need to scale up and wield th

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