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Inside: Wellness surveillance makes workers unwell; and more!

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A black and white photo of a steno pool worked by women in mid-1950s haircuts and clothing. Perched on each woman's desk is a lab-coated figure whose head has been replaced by the red staring eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' Each red eye is emitting a cone of red light that engulfs a different woman's head. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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    Wellness surveillance makes workers unwell: As ever, the important thing isn't what the gadget does, it's who it does it for and who it does it to.

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    NYPD claims its Freedom of Information Act policy is a secret “attorney-client communications” https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/mar/05/nypd-counsel-doubles-down-foil-handbook-rejection/

    Homework is eating American schoolkids and their families https://archive.nytimes.com/parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/12/homeworks-emotional-toll-on-students-and-families/

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    The latest Right to Repair battle: fake, corporate co-option of Right to Repair measures https://www.wired.com/story/right-to-repair-co-opt/

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