Karen Levy Discussion: Digital Surveillance in the Workplace
Maxwell Hall, 204
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"Data Driven" examines how digital surveillance is upending life and work on the open road, and raises crucial questions about the role of data collection in broader systems of social control.
"Data Driven" contributes to an emerging conversation about how technology affects our work, institutions, and personal lives, and helps to guide our thinking about how to protect public interests and safeguard human dignity in the digital age. Karen Levy takes readers inside a world few ever see, painting a bracing portrait of one of the last great American frontiers. Federal regulations now require truckers to buy and install digital monitors that capture data about their locations and behaviors. Intended to address the pervasive problem of trucker fatigue by regulating the number of hours driven each day, these devices support additional surveillance by trucking firms and other companies. Levy reveals how these invasive technologies are reconfiguring industry relationships and providing new tools for managerial and legal control—and how truckers are challenging and resisting them.
About the Speaker:
Karen Levy is a faculty member in the Department of Information Science at Cornell University and associated faculty at Cornell Law School. She is a New America Fellow.
Category
Social Science and Public Policy
Type
Discussions
Region
Hybrid Campus and Virtual
Open to
Faculty
Staff
Students, Graduate and Professional
Organizer
MAX-Autonomous Systems Policy Institute
Accessibility
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