Labor/Employment
Nov. 11, 2026
California's law on AI-powered workplace surveillance implicates more than Big Brother
California's AB 1883 prohibits AI-enabled monitoring of employee emotions and neural data, even for workplace safety or wellness purposes, raising compliance concerns for employers using otherwise practical technologies.
Jonathan Slowik
Partner
Proskauer Rose LLP
Phone: (310) 284-4588
Email: jslowik@proskauer.com
UCLA School of Law
Imagine a workplace where advanced surveillance technology allows your boss to know when you're frustrated, bored, distracted or mentally exhausted. Such mind-reading technologies have long been the stuff of science fiction, where one might expect a faceless, Orwellian corporation to monitor its workers' innermost thoughts.
However, due to advances in artificial intelligence, monitoring emotional states or brain activity is becoming not only possible, but something employer...
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