Overview
- IWGB Game Workers Union said Tuesday it filed legal action against Build A Rocket Boy over claims the studio secretly installed Teramind on employee PCs and then withheld details about the data it gathered, with the case escalated to ACAS and the ICO.
- The union says Teramind logs keystrokes, records screen activity, and can capture microphone audio, which it argues violates data protection rules and workers’ basic dignity.
- Staff discovered the software after slower PC performance and an updated IT policy, and CEO Mark Gerhard later called Teramind “enhanced cybersecurity software” introduced after leadership raised concerns about internal saboteurs.
- The company removed Teramind in March after more than 40 workers filed a collective grievance, yet employees say management has not disclosed what was collected, how it was stored, or why it was deployed.
- Separate legal claims over the studio’s 2025 redundancies, which affected roughly 250–300 people and include alleged unlawful blacklisting, are ongoing alongside leadership’s assertion that UK and US authorities are reviewing alleged sabotage of MindsEye.