Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 853, Statutes of 2026.
Summary
The bill prohibits employers from using surveillance devices to monitor workers for purposes such as preventing legal compliance, inferring protected activity, reading emotional state, gait, or neural data, and restricts facial‑recognition to unlocking devices or secure areas. It gives the Labor Commissioner and public prosecutors authority to enforce the rules, allows workers to sue, and sets a $500 civil penalty per violation. The law applies statewide, with narrow exemptions for federal defense‑related projects.
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