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Walmart Patents Technology to Eavesdrop on Workers

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Would let bosses listen to conversations with customers.

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Paulo Whitaker / Reuters

In the latest piece of evidence that we’re living squarely in a dystopia, Walmart has won a patent for technology that will allow bosses to eavesdrop on their workers.

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