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Humans in the AI loop: the data labelers behind some of the most powerful LLMs' training datasets

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Managed by Bots: surveillance of gig economy workers

PI, Worker Info Exchange, and App Drivers and Couriers Union have teamed up to challenge the unprecedented surveillance that gig economy workers are facing from their employers.

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Examples of algorithmic management abuses

Companies are increasingly tracking their workers and deploying unaccountable algorithms to make major employment decisions over which workers have little or no control or understanding. While gig economy workers, content creators and warehouse operatives are at the sharp end of the algorithmic black-box, opaque and intrusive surveillance practices are embedding themselves across many industries and workplaces.

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A black female content creator at her desk in front of a camera with an ominous black box with data points and an eye on one face looking at her behind her shoulder

Creating content in the gig economy: a risky business

The rise of the gig-economy, a way of working relying on short term contracts and temporary jobs rather than on an employed workforce, has enabled the growth of a number of companies over the last few years. But without the rights that comes with full employment, gig economy workers today don't have access to essential protections.

Examples of Abuse

Want to know how this translate in the real world? Here is the latest example in the news.

Indian women protest policy changes at Urban Company

Over the years, Urban Company, which in 2014 offered women economic independence in India, a country that has very low female participation in the workforce, has increasingly removed flexibility and autonomy for its workers while raising the cost of getting started as a worker on the app to the

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Privacy International's response to ILO questionnaire on realizing decent work in the platform economy

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The International Labour Organisation (ILO) is developing a new legal standard to support decent work in the platform economy. Privacy International has submitted its views on the risks to the privacy, autonomy and decency of workers posed by the use of automated decision-making. This is with the aim of informing the forthcoming discussion on the standard at the 2025 and 2026 International Labour Conferences.