Employees at Build a Rocket Boy have filed a lawsuit against the studio's management for espionage
The lawsuit was prompted by surveillance software allegedly secretly installed on the computers of MindsEye developers.
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A group of employees from Build a Rocket Boy, members of the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB), took a stand against the company's management. In their statement, they reported that the Teramind software appeared on workplace devices at some point, capable of collecting various types of data without the user's knowledge. For instance, it can track keystrokes, record screen activity, and intercept microphone audio.
The plaintiffs claim that by March 2026, the software was finally removed — top executives were forced to do so following a collective complaint from over 40 employees. Nevertheless, the developers still have not been told why Teramind was implemented in the first place, what specific data it recorded in their case, and where the collected information is stored.
According to the MindsEye developers, the management of Build a Rocket Boy exceeded the norms of ordinary productivity monitoring or studio security measures — this is already about a gross violation of privacy. Especially considering that many employees work from home, which means not only work-related moments could have been recorded.
Notably, co-director of Build a Rocket Boy, Mark Gerhard, previously stated that some studio employees participated in a major campaign to undermine MindsEye's reputation. This was allegedly discovered during an internal investigation, the results of which Gerhard also planned to bring to court.