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Investigating surveillance, data and automated systems, and the people on the other end of them.

Work

People who are measured, scored and watched at work, including the workers who train automated systems.

Work

A nonprofit data labeler now scores its home workers through their webcams

Rungwell, a Toronto social enterprise whose labelers in Nairobi and Manila prepare training data for machine-learning systems, says Focus Assurance helps people keep their attention where they want it. Some of them say they do not know what it records, or what a low score costs them.