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October 26, 2020 09:54 pm
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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/26/21535089/surveillance-company-verkada-harassed-female-employees
Surveillance company harassed female employees using its own facial recognition technology
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A surveillance startup in Silicon Valley is being accused of sexism and discrimination after a sales director used the company’s facial recognition system to harass female workers. Verkada, which was valued in January at $1.6 billion, equips its office with its own security cameras.
Last year, the sales director accessed these cameras to take photos of female workers, then posted them in a Slack channel called #RawVerkadawgz alongside sexually explicit jokes. The incident was first reported by IPVM and independently verified by Vice.
Employees told IPVM that a group of men in leadership positions on the sales team, many of whom grew up in Danville and played football together in high school, contributed to...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/26/21535089/surveillance-company-verkada-harassed-female-employees
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