"Americans rallied around the concept of a 'side hustle,' and governments effectively endorsed the practice by declining to get involved in the smartphone-based labor markets taking shape. Now, in even more perilous times, 'a v...

"Data collected by monitoring technologies has been used to inform automated assessments about workers’ behaviors, qualities, or fitness for employment, increasing the potential for workplace discrimination."

“'It’s very hard to use automation when you’re in an information environment where the information is always incomplete and changing,' Robyn Caplan, a researcher at the nonprofit Data & Society, told The Hill."