The resistance offers lessons for workers elsewhere to disrupt the relentless onslaught of surveillance capitalism.

HR staff claimed the tiny cameras affixed to each tailor’s head would mean prospective clients saw the quality of their products and placed more orders, resulting in pay rises for everyone at the garment factory on the outskirts of India’s capital. But the workers suspected the real reason was AI. So Ankush Yadav, a young tailor, and his friends pried open the cameras…

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