Why Monitoring Workers Could End Up Backfiring

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Low-wage hourly work has never been the most stable way to earn a living, but new surveillance technology is making conditions worse for hourly workers, according to technology researcher and Data & Society founder Danah Boyd. 

Boyd and Rishad Tobaccowala, chairman of the Tobaccowala Foundation, spoke to The Huffington Post's Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday.

"We think we can make people behave in a certain way that we want, and we don't take into account the real human costs," said Boyd.