Whole Foods must pay $300,000 over accusations that a system meant to track productivity captured warehouse workers' voices without their consent

Jan 6 2023 by Business Insider

 
Employees at a Whole Foods warehouse in Chicago would get payments of over $500 under a lawsuit settlement related to a work management system that recorded their voices.

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Whole Foods will pay out almost $300,000 in a lawsuit settlement over voice technology. Workers at an Illinois warehouse had to record their voices in a system that directed their work. But the employees said that Whole Foods ran afoul of a biometric-data law in making the recordings.

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