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There is so much wrong with bossware. Privacy issues. Security issues. Employee trust issues. https://wideangle.co/blog/the-rise-of-bossware-and-threat-to...
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I can't find a single source for your claim that warehouse workers are being made to wear ankle bracelets. The closest I see is an Amazon patent from 2018. This kind of hyperbole is not helpful to conversations like this. I've worked in factories and seen the degree to which productivity is an issue. I actually lobbied for us to use the time tracking that was already available to us via our ERP, and management declin…
Nice try. The memo from NLRB mentioned in the article makes the claim. National Law Review is the top search result on Kagi: https://natlawreview.com/article/nlrb-general-counsel-issues...
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Just assume it does
No kidding! We have some ridiculous timeout on our work machines that triggers the screensaver after 2 minutes of idle time (we can’t change this). After it’s triggered, you need to enter your password to unlock (company mandated, 10 chars minimum, no repeating chars, at least 1 upper and 1 lower case char, at least 1 special symbol, change every 90 days, can't be too similar to last 10(!) passwords). Okay, this is a…
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>I'm happy the government is finally stepping in. As a small player, I'm always afraid of this. Two of my companies died because of legal stuff that was outside the economics I could front.
if "don't aggressively spy on your employees" puts you out of business what on earth's your business model?
"remove management"
Doesnt that sound great? Cheaper, less subjective.
And sure, its cheaper to let Asia do it. They don't have the regulations. Get in-line and work for the established players!
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No kidding! We have some ridiculous timeout on our work machines that triggers the screensaver after 2 minutes of idle time (we can’t change this). After it’s triggered, you need to enter your password to unlock (company mandated, 10 chars minimum, no repeating chars, at least 1 upper and 1 lower case char, at least 1 special symbol, change every 90 days, can't be too similar to last 10(!) passwords). Okay, this is a…
Slack sets your status to "away" after 30 min of inactivity. You cannot disable this.
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> At this point it looks like it’ll be iris scans. Oh god no, a piece of not-that-secret information which can't be revoked when eventually leaked. "This is a courtesy alert that your iris scan has been found on the darkweb..."
Like your name or address?
"Welcome to Acme Bank. To prove you are the owner of this bank-account, please supply your full name and street address. *ding* Authentication successful! Please choose an amount to transfer."
At best, biometrics can only replace usernames. In other words, information that is quasi-public and not expected to be easily changeable... With the additional problem that sometimes it changes all on its own.
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I didn't suggest, or mean to suggest as much... I mean that when I worked on a public site with ads, I made sure that the site continued to look right and operate when analytics and ads were blocked. Unless you're asserting that every website with ads or any kind of analytics/tracking is evil?
Oh, absolutely - sorry if I implied that, I sensed the suggestion of it in the parent comment and clumsily followed on from your response to that part. I completely agree with making sure things work as much as possible and look OK when stuff like that is blocked and even when JS is disabled. Analytics can be useful and ads are a necessary evil for the prevalent web business model. Tracking is, ugh, I guess in theory…
Everyone replying with "what's the big deal?" is showing their tech privilege. You may not have to deal with intrusive monitoring, but warehouse workers are increasingly being made to wear ankle bracelets so every movement of theirs can be monitored and stack ranked. Workers in WFH "gig" jobs are made to install always-on keyloggers and other monitoring software on their personal computers and phones (which are requi…
> Plenty of jobs require you to hand your social media passwords to your employer. Can you elaborate with examples or references?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/books/review-kochland-sec...
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Because workers arent slaves or robots, and being on the job doesnt make them such. Your mentality is actually staggering to me.
Can you answer this question directly: What is it that you don't want seen by a company representative, on a company computer, while being paid by the company?
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Perhaps during the video they discovered that they didn't like you.
You're not supposed to see candidates' faces on applications to make sure there is no bias based on looks. Not sure how enforceable that is.