Truckers keep data privacy lawsuit against Union Pacific on track

Why this matters: Truckers are not a group that usually shows up in privacy litigation, but their work generates a lot of data — location, routes, timing, cargo, behavior behind the wheel. If a major railroad is collecting that data from independent drivers, the question of what it does with it matters. Workers often have little say over what gets tracked as a condition of doing business. This case is worth watching because it tests whether people at the edges of a supply chain have any real privacy rights over what they produce just by doing their jobs.