I have read the article "Snooping Bosses" and the subject seemed similar to a previous assignment that was given to me in upper secondary school. There was a lot of new interesting technology to track employees though, like “Compliance Control’s HyGenius system”. That is pretty good I think because bad hygiene in restaurants can lead to serious illness or even death.
I can understand that employers want to make sure their employees make up to the salary they earn. If I ever become an employer I probably will do the same thing but I think there’s a limit to it.
When you are at work is one thing but the tracking outside the workplace is not very good unless the employee is using company stuff or leaking out information which is a secret.
I guess that there will be less privacy in the future.
Maybe you will even have to buy privacy?
It's an interesting thought; buying privacy. If we are moving towards an Orwellian society then I definitely think that there will be people capitalizing on our need for privacy.
ReplyDeleteMaybe there will be Privacy Shops; you buy half an hour of privacy and get a room with a nice armchair, where you can read a book and smoke your pipe.
We will probably never see this, but it would make a perfect plot for a dystopic novel!
Let’s hope we never get to a point where we have to buy our own privacy!
ReplyDeleteReally interesting thought about buying your privacy. In the future maybe that is the reality. But it also is in an way today with services like VPN-tunnels and such from which you can buy your online privacy.
ReplyDeleteYes, different internet services already "sell privacy" in a way. But rather than that, hasn't privacy become somewhat of a currency? We buy safety, entertainment and services at the cost of privacy; I'm selling a little piece of mine to be here blogging, right?
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