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Committee advances bill to limit employer surveillance in employee‑only areas and during breaks
Summary
AB 1331 would curb continuous employer surveillance in employee‑only areas and during breaks; the Senate Labor Committee referred the bill to Judiciary after debate over safety and regulatory carve‑outs.
Assemblymember Al Hawari presented AB 1331, which aims to update workplace privacy laws for a range of modern surveillance technologies — including wearable trackers, facial recognition and automated speech monitoring — by limiting continuous monitoring in employer‑designated employee‑only spaces and during breaks. The bill would still allow cameras, but not constant live monitoring in those spaces, and would restrict certain forms of continuous tracking.
Nut graf: Supporters argued that modern surveillance technology is increasingly pervasive, that low‑wage and…
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