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People who are measured, scored and watched at work, including the workers who train automated systems.
Faith Odera joined the data labeling company’s first cohort in Nairobi in 2016 and trained many of the people who now train others. She says she left over a single client project, which she will not name.
Larchcombe’s new Residence Code follows a former house manager’s claim over on-call hours. It also puts in writing a practice former staff described last year: handing personal phones to the house manager for the whole working day.
The Los Angeles studio lets performers pull a title from public access at any time. Performers who have done so say nobody could tell them whether footage of them was used to build Fullfield Ambient, the tool that fills its scenes with people who do not exist.
She had worked for the family for 18 months through Larchcombe, a Seattle agency whose former staff say house managers held their phones for most of the working day. The agency says it has given the authorities everything it holds.
A former house manager placed by Larchcombe with an Eastside family has filed a claim against the family and the agency over the hours she says she worked at night without pay. Larchcombe says one sentence in its code has been misread.
Rungwell, a Toronto social enterprise whose labelers in Nairobi and Manila prepare training data for machine-learning systems, says Focus Assurance helps people keep their attention where they want it. Some of them say they do not know what it records, or what a low score costs them.