"At EFF, we that tech rights are worker's rights . Since the pandemic, workers of all kinds have been subjected to increasingly invasive forms of . These are the "algorithmic management" tools that surveil workers on and off the job, often running on devices that (nominally) belong to workers, hijacking our phones and laptops. On the job, digital technology can become both a system of ubiquitous surveillance and a means of total control ."
"Enter the EU's Platform Work Directive (PWD). The PWD was finalized in 2024, and every EU member state will have to implement ("transpose") it by 2026. The PWD contains far-reaching measures to protect workers from abuse, wage theft, and other unfair working conditions. But the PWD isn't self-enforcing! Over the decades that EFF has fought for user rights, we've proved that having a legal right on paper isn't the same as having that right in the real world."
Tech rights are workers' rights. Since the pandemic, workers have faced increasingly invasive algorithmic management that surveils on- and off-duty activity, often running on devices nominally owned by workers and hijacking phones and laptops. Digital technology on the job can become both ubiquitous surveillance and a means of total control. The EU Platform Work Directive (PWD), finalized in 2024 and to be transposed by 2026, contains measures to protect workers from abuse, wage theft, and unfair conditions. Legal protections require enforcement and advocates; unions are positioned to defend workers. Widespread bossware use has produced harms including algorithmic wage discrimination and wage theft.
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