Archiv: monitoring


13.11.2020 - 22:20 [ The Hill ]

Australia uses drones to ensure social distancing at the beach

Drones will begin flying at over 20 beaches and parks on Saturday and are expected until the end of February.

30.11.2018 - 10:42 [ Spiked ]

Authoritarianism, powered by the Cloud

A low credit rating could do serious harm, not only to your career but also to your family’s life chances. And this will all be made possible by monitoring cameras, intelligence records, data-mining and other forms of surveillance that ensure that justice is swift. When I was travelling in a car in Jiangsu Province recently, my driver ran a red light and immediately received a message on his phone telling him that the fine had been deducted from his bank account.

16.05.2018 - 11:08 [ Wikitribune ]

Amazon patents wristband that monitors and directs workers’ hands

The patent for the ultrasonic wristband was filed in 2016 by Jonathan Cohn, a senior technical program manager for Amazon Go, the checkout-less store which recently opened in Seattle.

In a statement to technology site The Verge, an Amazon spokesperson said that the speculation that it times the toilet breaks of employees is “misguided.”

16.05.2018 - 11:02 [ South China Morning Post ]

‘Forget the Facebook leak’: China is mining data directly from workers’ brains on an industrial scale

The company said it could increase the overall efficiency of the workers by manipulating the frequency and length of break times to reduce mental stress.

Hangzhou Zhongheng Electric is just one example of the large-scale application of brain surveillance devices to monitor people’s emotions and other mental activities in the workplace, according to scientists and companies involved in the government-backed projects.

16.05.2018 - 10:48 [ Fefe ]

Was ist eigentlich der Unterschied zwischen USA und China?

China:

Government-backed surveillance projects are deploying brain-reading technology to detect changes in emotional states in employees on the production line, the military and at the helm of high-speed trains

Und USA:

Amazon has patented designs for a bracelet that would monitor workers’ hand movements and use vibrations – known as “haptic feedback” – to point them in the right direction if they put their hands on the wrong places.