Tracking workers with smartphone apps. What could possibly go wrong?

Andrea Peterson:

When Myrna Arias discovered that her employer could track her movements even when she was off duty, she disabled the GPS-enabled app on her company-issued smartphone. That got her fired, according a suit filed by Arias.

In the lawsuit, Arias, a former sales executive for international wire-transfer service Intermex, claims that her boss “admitted that employees would be monitored while off duty” and even bragged about being able to track her driving speeds. She was “scolded” for disabling the app and fired not long after despite strong performance in other parts of her job, according to the lawsuit, which was first reported on by Ars Technica.