Microsoft seeks patent for office ’spy’ software
January 17th, 2008 by admin !The Times reports that Microsoft has filed for a patent that will allow the employers to monitor employee’s productivity, physical wellbeing and competence.
Microsoft submitted a patent application in the US for a “unique monitoring system” that could link workers to their computers. Wireless sensors could read “heart rate, galvanic skin response, EMG, brain signals, respiration rate, body temperature, movement facial movements, facial expressions and blood pressure”, the application states.
The system could also “automatically detect frustration or stress in the user” and “offer and provide assistance accordingly”. Imagine a world where you are constantly monitored by your employers, where getting excited privately by an attractive fellow employee could end up in a sexual harassment claim, or even privately being unhappy by someone in management may automatically result in intervention and retraining.
Scary
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