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When your team's productivity tools become surveillance systems

Our small startup team uses Slack for everything and we all have location sharing turned on for work coordination but now it feels like we're always being watched by each other even during off hours. Everyone seems uncomfortable but no one wants to be the first to turn it off because we worry it will look like we're not committed to the team.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Tools designed for collaboration can gradually transform into monitoring systems that no one explicitly chose but everyone feels trapped by.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Privacy and surveillance in digital life?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.