Griff Ferris, legal and policy officer at Big Brother Watch, a British civil liberties and privacy campaigning organisation, says it sets a ‘worrying precedent’.
‘Using artificial intelligence to closely monitor employees’ every move at work as well as their personal lives in an attempt to predict what they will do in future is the epitome of total surveillance,’ he told MailOnline.
‘People shouldn’t be put under surveillance at work without suspicion as it erodes the principle that we are innocent until proven guilty.’
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