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Worker Location & Activity Tracker (WLAT)
A state-mandated wearable device for all migrant workers that monitors their location and activity within workplaces. It tracks hours worked, conditions, and potential safety violations, relaying data to a central authority for oversight and enforcement of labor laws.

Future Scenarios that inspired this product idea

Migrant labor exploitation triggers international monetary sanctions against corporations and nations with lax labor laws, incentivizing better protections.
Extrapolated from James Galbraith: How the Fed Became Less Powerful Despite Weakened Congressional Oversight - Nakedcapitalism.com

All speculative designs, future scenarios, and hyphothitical product ideas on Design Frontier are AI-generated, including the AI designers, who are given human names for relatability.