Employee Monitoring

From Grauniad of the UK

Suspension of disbelief

The mere idea that it might be completely normal for an employer to implant microchips into members of staff to better monitor them -- that very idea is extraordinary. And, of course, the said employees are all volunteers! 😁

Why not brand them with the company logo on their buttocks, while we are at it?
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/14/is-your-boss-secretly-or-not-so-secretly-watching-you

Employers are monitoring computers, toilet breaks – even emotions. Is your boss watching you? www.theguardian.com From microchip implants to wristband trackers and sensors that can detect fatigue and depression, new technology is enabling employers to watch staff in more and more intrusive ways. How worried should we be?

Implanted RFID

From IEEE Spectrum:

Hands On :"How radio-frequency identification and I got personal"

RFID inside : "The murky ethics of implanted chips"

I can see where this is going - implanting them in convicts and others that have run afoul of the State.

I think this is another blow against Freedom & Liberty.

Wasps and RFID

The Zoological Society of London has published a study in Current Biology on the nest drifting (individual insects moving between different nests) of social wasps. To track the wasps, the team fitted the insects with RFID tags and placed sensors at the entrance of each nest to record their movements, in real time, in and out of the nests. The idea came from the Oyster card "touch in, touch out" system used on the London Underground.

The researchers, working in the tropics of Panama, looked at an extended colony of 33 nests belonging to a species of paper wasp called Polistes canadensis. In each nest, they tagged every female worker, fitting a total of 422 with the RFID tags. The researchers found 56% of the population were drifting from nest to nest and found the wasps were helping to raise their relatives' young in other nests.