Microsoft pushes gadgets to help employer spy

Stefan Mileschin · 17th May 2017, 06:41

Vole jumps on the Big Brother bandwagon

It would appear that Microsoft has mistaken George Orwell’s “1984” as a suggested path for innovation and come up with software to help employers spy on their employees 24/7.

Vole has been showing off its Microsoft Workplace Monitoring where CCTV cameras watch a workplace -- like a construction site -- on 24/7 basis, and AI algorithms constantly oversee and evaluate what is happening.

The system can track where employees are, where physical equipment and tools are at what time, who does what at what time in this workplace and apparently use Cloud-based AI of some sort to evaluate what is happening in the workplace being monitored.

http://fudzilla.com/news/43659-micro...p-employer-spy

17th May 2017, 06:41	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 153,541	Microsoft pushes gadgets to help employer spy Vole jumps on the Big Brother bandwagon It would appear that Microsoft has mistaken George Orwell’s “1984” as a suggested path for innovation and come up with software to help employers spy on their employees 24/7. Vole has been showing off its Microsoft Workplace Monitoring where CCTV cameras watch a workplace -- like a construction site -- on 24/7 basis, and AI algorithms constantly oversee and evaluate what is happening. The system can track where employees are, where physical equipment and tools are at what time, who does what at what time in this workplace and apparently use Cloud-based AI of some sort to evaluate what is happening in the workplace being monitored. http://fudzilla.com/news/43659-micro...p-employer-spy

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