A surveillance startup in Silicon Valley is being accused of sexism and discrimination after a sales director used the company’s facial recognition system to harass female workers.
Verkada, which was valued in January at $1.6 billion, equips its office with its own security cameras.
Employees at Verkada accessed the company's facial recognition system to take photos of women colleagues and make sexually explicit jokes.
Last year, the sales director accessed these cameras to take photos of female workers, then posted them in a Slack channel called #RawVerkadawgz alongside sexually explicit jokes. The incident was first reported by IPVM and independently verified by Vice. more
