...Sokratis Koniordos Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show how the platform work directive (PWD) provides an initial EU response to platform worker grievances in relation to their legal status and to work surveillance by algorithmic means. And as the platform economy is largely unseen...

...Delia Langstone What usually springs to mind are Big Brother and CCTV and it is true that surveillance is about “seeing things and, more particularly, about seeing people. But paradoxically people are not what most surveillance sees today” (Lyon, 2007 , p. 1). What Lyon terms “The culture...

...Ann Marie Wood Explores the extent of employee surveillance in the western world and queries why the USA uses surveillance measures to a greater extent than other developed nations. Suggests that American managers choose surveillance methods which include the control of workers’ bodies...