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| From | Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: work verification software |
| Date | 2019-02-19 05:37 +0000 |
| Organization | Some absurd concept |
| Message-ID | <eli$1902190037@qaz.wtf> (permalink) |
| References | <20190213171400.f9e03d33.rsw@therandymon.com> |
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
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works hard to separate work from non-work
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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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