ADM Talk: The Data Subject: Consent & Dissent in the Future of Work

Talk by Dr Phoebe V. Moore, University of Leicester School of Business.

Dr Phoebe V Moore. ‘Workplace surveillance is an age-old practice, but it has become easier and more common, as new technologies enable more varied, pervasive and widespread electronic monitoring practices and have increased the range of what can be monitored about what seems like every aspect of workers’ lives. New technological innovations have increased both the number of monitoring devices available to employers as well as the efficiency of these instruments to extract, process and store personal information. While the GDPR asks for a consent framework, how much can a digital subject genuinely consent to tracking and monitoring processes? How can she be part of these transformations in a meaningful way? Issues are emerging having to do with ownership of data, power dynamics of work-related surveillance, usage of data, human resource practices and workplace pressures in ways that cut across all socio-economic classes, internationally. While European policy i.e. the GPDR provides progressive inroads to protect digital subjects in workplaces, a global governance framework is urgently needed.’

Bio

Dr Phoebe V. Moore, Assoc Professor of the Futures of Work at the University of Leicester School of Business, is a globally recognised expert in digitalisation and the workplace. Moore’s research is regularly part of elite policy circles and commissioned by such organisations as the United Nations’ International Labour Organization [note that this is the correct spelling of the ILO], the European Safety and Health Agency EU-OSHA, OECD and the UK’s APPG. Her most recent book is The Quantified Self in Precarity, Work, Technology & What Counts (Routledge, paperback 2019).

The talk is organized by the Automated decision-making: Nordic perspectives network, funded by the IRFD.

Zoom link

https://ucph-ku.zoom.us/j/68318464877?pwd=djhyc2lkWXg5UFQrWlFSTWJGQ3Bldz09