This has been around for well over decade A.K.A. tagging/tracking. I remember Teradata had pretty public investors drive about decade ago, claiming to have best and market dominant solution for this.
I bet the G and F companies were doing that at scale long before them. It is good to talk about this though. If not for anything else than to remind ourselves that we are being slowly cooked for someone else's feast. -T On Tue, Jan 7, 2020, 14:59 Ben Koenig <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 11:01 AM Mike C. <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Based on the HTML blurb it's basically tracking clicks, screen time, > > > and interactions with other people to improve my "focus" and > "wellbeing". > > > > > > > That looks like fun! To totally F! with in every possible way! > > > You could game totally game it and then tell your co-workers & manager that > > MyAnalytics advises you to never talk to them because afterwards you're > > always less productive. Ahhh, free, free at last!!! > > > > > LOL. The best part is that this was just automatically added by Microsoft, > I'm sure my employer didn't sign up for this, and they aren't using it. To > make matters even worse, it goes on this whole thing about how this > information is for ME and cannot be seen by anyone else. So basically, MS > is offering me the ability to work outside the confines of company > policy??? > > So if I'm understanding correctly, Microsoft is recording everything I do > at work, without my employer's permission, and then using it to decide how > productive I am? Given that I work for a data security company, I could > totally raise this as an IT concern. I'm sure the whole world would > absolutely LOVE to impact the functionality of our digital forensics > hardware... > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
