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Surveillance Startup Used Own Cameras to Harass Coworkers

Posted on October 27, 2020 by pogowasright.org

Lauren Kaori Gurley and Joseph Cox report:

Verkada, a fast-growing Silicon Valley surveillance startup, equips its offices in downtown San Mateo, California, with its own state-of-the-art security cameras.

Last year, a sales director on the company’s sales team abused their access to these cameras to take and post photos of colleagues in a Slack channel called #RawVerkadawgz where they made sexually explicit jokes about women who worked at the company, according to a report in IPVM, which Motherboard independently verified and obtained more information about.

Read more on Vice.

Category: BusinessSurveillanceWorkplace

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