technology.timesonline.co.uk — Microsoft is developing Big Brother-style software capable of remotely monitoring a worker?s productivity, physical wellbeing and competence. The Times has seen a patent application filed by the company for a computer system that links workers to their computers via wireless sensors that measure their metabolism. The system would allow managers
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needsmorecoffeeJan 16, 2008
The fact that it's Microsoft makes me MORE worried. Do you really want this kind of info and capability available to any 14-year-old hacker who feels like tapping into it?
bjornskiJan 16, 2008
Precisely the reason this stuff is being rolled out.You guys who f**k around reading Digg (and other stuff) instead of working are the reason for this software.
Closed AccountJan 17, 2008
Briton: home of the gutless ****.........
cherubimJan 17, 2008
Why would Microsoft want to know how often one takes a dump or farts every hour ?
Closed AccountJan 19, 2008
its for beta testing, theyve been doing this for years
cquinndJan 20, 2008
I saw a couple of companies offering technology like this at CES in 2007. There have been third party and in house solutions for monitoring employee computer use promoted since it became a requirement of Saxbanes-Oxley compliance, if not before.
angrygoateeJan 24, 2008
This is some scary s**t!
dillonstarsJan 25, 2008
I think it is people that think that and not religion.
donna1234Jul 16, 2008
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