{"id":2863,"date":"2021-09-16T15:09:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T13:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/16\/employers-are-spying-on-us-at-home-with-tattleware-its-time-to-track-them-instead-jessa-crispin\/"},"modified":"2021-09-16T15:09:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T13:09:48","slug":"employers-are-spying-on-us-at-home-with-tattleware-its-time-to-track-them-instead-jessa-crispin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/16\/employers-are-spying-on-us-at-home-with-tattleware-its-time-to-track-them-instead-jessa-crispin\/","title":{"rendered":"Employers are spying on us at home with \u2018tattleware\u2019. It\u2019s time to track them instead | Jessa Crispin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Delivery drivers and warehouse workers are already monitored relentlessly. Now white-collar employees are getting a taste of surveillance capitalism<\/p>\n

The corporate handwringing started at almost the same time as the lockdown orders: \u201cBut if all of our workers are at home, where we can\u2019t see them, how can we possibly know that they\u2019re actually working?\u201d<\/p>\n

Leave it to the tech creeps to figure out a solution to reassure your boss, miles away, that you are indeed doing what you are being paid to do. Writing in the Guardian, Sandy Milne recently reported<\/a> on the rise of \u201cbossware\u201d or \u201ctattleware\u201d, essentially spyware that enables managers to monitor their employees working from home. That includes a new program called Sneek, which uses your webcam to take a photo of you about once a minute and sends it to your supervisor, to prove that you are not away from your desk doing God knows what. You\u2019re not warned in advance, so the photograph that Sneek takes can catch you doing pretty much anything \u2013 picking spinach out of your teeth, smelling your own armpit, or any of the other totally normal things human beings do when alone but that no one really wants documented and distributed. It\u2019s a level of invasion that would horrify even the NSA.<\/p>\n

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\nDelivery drivers and warehouse workers are already monitored relentlessly. Now white-collar employees are getting a taste of surveillance capitalism
\nThe corporate handwringing started at almost the same time as the lockdown orders: \u201cBut if all of our workers are at home, where we can\u2019t see them, how can we possibly know that they\u2019re actually working?\u201d
\nLeave it to the tech creeps to figure out a solution to reassure your boss, miles away, that you are indeed doing what you are being paid to do. Writing in the Guardian, Sandy Milne recently reported on the rise of \u201cbossware\u201d or \u201ctattleware\u201d, essentially spyware that enables managers to monitor their employees working from home. That includes a new program called Sneek, which uses your webcam to take a photo of you about once a minute and sends it to your supervisor, to prove that you are not away from your desk doing God knows what. You\u2019re not warned in advance, so the photograph that Sneek takes can catch you doing pretty much anything \u2013 picking spinach out of your teeth, smelling your own armpit, or any of the other totally normal things human beings do when alone but that no one really wants documented and distributed. It\u2019s a level of invasion that would horrify even the NSA. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Delivery drivers and warehouse workers are already monitored relentlessly. Now white-collar employees are getting a taste of surveillance capitalism The corporate handwringing started at almost the same time as the lockdown orders: \u201cBut if all of our workers are at home, where we can\u2019t see them, how can we possibly know that they\u2019re actually working?\u201d …<\/p>\n

Employers are spying on us at home with \u2018tattleware\u2019. It\u2019s time to track them instead | Jessa Crispin<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}