Ars Technica reports on a California woman’s lawsuit in which she claims she was fired for turning off a tracking app installed on her employer-issued iPhone. Myrna Arias said she was fired shortly after she told her boss she was turning off the Xora app that she and her coworkers were required to use. Arias said her boss “admitted that employees would be monitored while off duty and bragged that he knew how fast she was driving at specific moments ever since she installed the app on her phone.” Arias said it was an invasion of her privacy during off hours, likening it “to a prisoner’s ankle bracelet,” the suit states. Arias now seeks $500,000 for invasion of privacy, retaliation and unfair business practices, among others.
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