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Committee moves bill to curb invasive workplace surveillance, including facial, gait and emotion recognition
Summary
AB 1883 (Bridal) would restrict or prohibit certain workplace surveillance technologies and set guardrails for others; unions, privacy advocates and firefighters supported the measure, while business and industry groups urged narrower rules and raised enforcement and preemption concerns.
Assemblymember Bridal presented AB 1883, a measure aiming to prohibit or strictly limit use of invasive workplace surveillance technologies — including facial, gait and emotion recognition — and to place guardrails on other analytic tools used to monitor employees.
Labor and privacy groups described concrete examples of surveillance harms and discrimination.…
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