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Re: work verification software

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On 2019-02-19, Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
> In comp.misc, RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
>> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/13/work_verification_accountability_bills/
>> 
>> If you want a vision of the future, imagine not a boot stamping on a
>> face, but keystroke logging on govt contractors' PCs
>
> How about private employers tracking your movement all the time?
>
>
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/with-fitness-trackers-in-the-workplace-bosses-can-monitor-your-every-step--and-possibly-more/2019/02/15/75ee0848-2a45-11e9-b011-d8500644dc98_story.html
>
>     Real-time information from wearable devices is crunched together
>     with information about past doctors visits and hospitalizations to
>     get a health snapshot of employees. Sleep monitoring has especially
>     profound implications. Poor sleep can be a key indicator of
>     depression, substance abuse or other mental disturbances. Overweight
>     insomniacs, as measured in this new world, for example, will stand
>     out faster as potentially costly health insurance risks.
>
>     Some companies also add information from outside the health system
>     -- social predictors of health such as credit scores and whether
>     someone lives alone -- to come up with individual risk forecasts.
>
>     "The Fitbit or Apple Watch applications ... may yield clues to
>     things about you that you are not even aware of, or not ready for
>     other people to know," said Electronic Frontier's Tien.
>     "Individuals and consumers who are buying these devices don't
>     understand that is a potential Consequence."
>
> It's not compulsory, but it is incentivized. As "fitness tracking" gets
> put in more things, expect employer provided devices needed for work to
> have these capibilities.
>
> Elijah
> ------
> works hard to separate work from non-work

I got a fitbit over the holiday - won it at a party, as I'd never shell out
the $200 myself.  Got to say I kind of like the insights into my health
habits, and it's for the moment a net positive in my life.  But yes, the
tracking potential isn't lost on me.

No one will ever force you to wear one for work.  But they *will* refuse
health insurance to anyone who doesn't, which is essentially the same thing.

PS wearing one while having sex is endless hilarity ... you and partner can
both monitor your heartrate during the act.  "99bpm, is that all? WTF?"

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work verification software RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-02-13 17:14 -0500
  Re: work verification software Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-02-13 22:23 +0000
    Re: work verification software Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2019-02-13 18:05 -0500
      Re: work verification software Batchman <batchman@dosville.foo> - 2019-02-14 20:44 +0000
        Re: work verification software RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-02-15 21:22 -0500
  Re: work verification software Nyssa <Nyssa@flawlesslogic.com> - 2019-02-13 17:54 -0500
  Re: work verification software Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-02-13 22:57 +0000
    Re: work verification software RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-02-15 21:23 -0500
  Re: work verification software Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-02-19 05:37 +0000
    Re: work verification software RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-02-23 15:19 -0500

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