About
What is the Workplace Surveillance Incident Tracker (WSIT)?
The Workplace Surveillance Incident Tracker is a space that allows workers to explore workplace surveillance cases, report incidents of surveillance, and find ways to resist workplace surveillance practices. The core of our project, the incident tracker, is comprised of reports from journalistic sources and worker submitted cases of workplace surveillance.
Our Values
This project is intended to serve workers, advocates, policy makers, and researchers in better understanding workplace surveillance, its harms, and pervasiveness in the modern American workplace. While we hope to serve these diverse groups, our primary goal is to center workers, supporting their rights. The information we provide is intended to provide workers with resources to better understand and resist surveillance in their workplace with the goal of serving as a source of empowerment, liberation, and inspiration for workers facing these repressive practices. Our work is complaint with ethical research principles and approved by the Carnegie Mellon University IRB Board.
Team
This project is organized by the Tech Solidarity Lab. Our lab does not accept funding from any companies or major corporations.The lab seeks to open new opportunities for community-driven technology development and extend theoretical frameworks that further our understanding of design, politics, and justice. The Tech Solidarity Lab is a part of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Cella Sum
Cella M. Sum is an interdisciplinary researcher and Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute. She is advised by Dr. Sarah Fox.
Her research focuses on technology, power, and resistance in labor contexts. She has looked into how community-based organizations negotiate disempowering data and tech practices, how workers resist surveillance technologies, and how and why workers unionize across the tech industry.
Sarah Fox
Sarah Fox is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the Human Computer Interaction Institute, where she directs the Tech Solidarity Lab.
Her research focuses on how technological artifacts challenge or propagate social exclusions by examining existing systems and building alternatives.
Sauvik Das
Sauvik Das is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Human Computer Interaction Institute, where he directs the SPUD (Security, Privacy, Usability and Design) Lab.
His work, at the intersection of HCI, AI and cybersecurity, is oriented around answering the question: How can we design systems that empower people with improved agency over their personal data and experiences online?
Morgan McErlean (she/her)
Morgan McErlean is an undergraduate at Swarthmore College majoring in English Literature with a concentration in resistance literature and Computer Science.
Morgan is interested in mitigating, preventing, and developing community-based, actionable solutions to technologically mediated harm. Her prior work has included informing people on AI and its ethical implications through an open source educational resource and developing a taxonomy of deepfake harms.
Asya Tarabar
Asya Tarabar is a rising junior studying Computing and the Arts (CS + Design) at Yale.
Lily Qin
Lily Qin is a rising sophomore at Carnegie Mellon University majoring in Information Systems.
Ryan Nuqui
Ryan is a recent graduate of the Carnegie Mellon University Human Computer Interaction Institute Masters of Educational Technology and Applied Learning Sciences (METALS). Ryan recieved an undergraduate degree from University of California, Berkeley in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics.
