The first thing my mind jumps to is a boss asking their new Slack AI assistant for a list of employees who have used Slack to speak negatively about the boss or company... and that's the new list of people to lay off.

Forgive the Reddit link. Microsoft already tried something like detecting people who are thinking of leaving:

https://new.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/v3b2mn/microsoft_...

Thankfully they pulled it.

But it's a line in the sand that shouldn't be crossed, yet slowly the line is being moved.

My company has some kind of system to try and alert managers when an employee is at risk of leaving, but I have on idea what they are using to determine that. I've been at risk for a while and no one has talked to me about it.

The cameras at the entrance to the building run some sentiment analysis on your face at 8am.

indeed

I don't see industrial scale privacy laundering is any different to the current industrial scale copyright laundering by the parasitic tech companies

"SolidGoldMagikarp, you did our business good service. Unfortunately, preliminary research has correlated you with over a thousand instances of under-performance and a number of disparaging claims we hesitate to repeat here. First we intend to ask you to resign, and if you refu- wait, what do you mean the call is empty?"

Happens. My team was starting to get weird and found the sociopath malcontent by digging through the Mattermost database. Mattermost does make it hard, in their favor.

There needs to be serious effort on developing laws that protect individuals from any of their data being used for any reason without explicit opt in

Such law already exists and it goes like this: if you don't want your data to be used don't post it on the Internet. It works perfectly. Every single time. Try it.

Right. You do realise all your finances are in your bank and that’s all online right?

Same with most health information.

Or your child’s beach pictures.

I do not think I should be allowed to access or use any of that without your consent