The legal proceedings between Walmart and employee union OUR Walmart has shed light on corporate surveillance, after the cases brought “1,000 pages of emails, reports, playbooks, charts and graphs, as well as testimony from its head of labor relations at the time,” to light, Bloomberg Business reports. “Unfortunately, there are occasions when outside groups attempt to deliberately disrupt our business and on behalf of our customers and associates we take action accordingly,” the company said. Critics disagree. “Walmart’s aim isn’t only to watch 100 or so active members of OUR Walmart,” said Cornell’s Kate Bronfenbrenner. “They are looking for the thousands who are supportive so they can intimidate them.”
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