Algorithms are increasingly treating workers like robots. Canada needs policy to protect them

Vass Bednar is the executive director of McMaster University’s new master of public policy in digital society program .

You may have heard about cameras that constantly monitor someone’s movements at work, and clocks that document the time taken to complete every task. Though this extreme surveillance may seem like something that is only happening overseas – think Foxconn factories in China , where workers produce Apple products – human beings being supervised by AI is increasingly a distressing reality for low-wage retail and service workers here in Canada.

While many professionals are working from home and casually ordering food […]

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