A woman claims she was fired from her job for deleting a work app which allowed bosses to track her movements, 24 hours a day.

Myrna Arias, who worked for money transfer company Intermex, says she was sacked when she removed the GPS tracker app from her work-issued phone.

The app showed bosses her exact position, and how long she had been in each location.


Ms Arias asked her boss about the app, and he ‘admitted that employees would be monitored while off duty and bragged that he knew how fast she was driving at specific moments ever since she installed the app on her phone’, court papers say.



The app, Xora, is used to monitor employees who work outside offices – and is used to ratify mileage claims and timesheets.

Ms Arias has now filed a lawsuit alleging that she was wrongfully fired from her job in Bakersfield, California.

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‘This intrusion would be highly offensive to a reasonable person,’ papers held by Kern County Superior Court say.