Veena Dubal, ‘Data Laws at Work’, 134 Yale Law Journal Forum 405 (2025); Ifeoma Ajunwa, ‘AI and Captured Capital’, 134 Yale Law Journal Forum 372 (2025). The Yale Law Journal Forum recently hosted a collection of essays under the rubric of ‘Reimagining and Empowering the Contemporary Workforce’. Two of these works deal specifically with the challenges for workers posed by the dramatically reoriented data landscape: ‘Data Laws at Work’ by Veena Dubal, and ‘AI and Captured Capital’ by Ifeoma Ajunwa. Both essays are essential reading for those interested in data protection and regulation within the workplace. Professors Dubal and Ajunwa present a nice contrast in their approaches to empowering workers within the data revolution. Dubal follows a more traditional privacy-oriented approach, seeking to further restrict employer access to, and use of, employee data through narrow permissions and harsher penalties. Ajunwa, on the other hand, argues that worker data represents business capital … (more)
[Matt Bodie, JOTWELL, 23 July 2025]
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