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Worker fired for disabling GPS app that tracked her 24 hours a day

Posted on May 11, 2015June 26, 2025 by Dissent

David Kravets reports:

A Southern California woman claims she was fired after uninstalling an app that her employer required her to run constantly on her mobile phone—an app that tracked her every move 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Plaintiff Myrna Arias, a former Bakersfield sales executive for wire-transfer service Intermex, claims in a state court lawsuit that her boss, John Stubits, fired her shortly after she uninstalled the job-management Xora app that she and her colleagues were required to use. According to hersuit (PDF) in Kern County Superior Court:

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