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Post by Red Rackham on Sept 23, 2024 12:55:43 GMT
New software is being developed to continuously monitor workers at their computers, to improve cybersecurity and be sure only authorised workers have access. It also has the potential to ‘track the user’s emotions in real time’, a controversial new feature of AI, sending out alerts if someone appears tired or stressed and telling them to take a break, for example. Instead of only being used when someone first logs in somewhere, the new software would continuously film them with a webcam or front-facing camera and identify if their face lines up with the expected dimensions Many will baulk at the idea of more widespread electronic surveillance at work [Or at home] but BT say cyber criminals are becoming more sophisticated, and businesses need to adapt. metro.co.uk/2024/09/22/office-workers-soon-filmed-day-desks-21650922/Widespread constant electronic surveillance being sold as a security measure. I'm not buying it, but I have every confidence it will become the norm.  |
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Post by jonksy on Sept 23, 2024 16:56:58 GMT
One has to ask who is monitering these systems and who is analyising and collating this data? We all know these systems eventually become an open door and a great deal of data will end up in the public domain...
I read a report today where many have died in accidents who use Apple phones which automatically send out an SOS in times of peril which have been ignored by the police and other emergency services..
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Post by Red Rackham on Sept 23, 2024 17:33:08 GMT
One has to ask who is monitering these systems and who is analyising and collating this data? We all know these systems eventually become an open door and a great deal of data will end up in the public domain... I read a report today where many have died in accidents who use Apple phones which automatically send out an SOS in times of peril which have been ignored by the police and other emergency services.. Indeed, good questions. Who is collecting this information and what is it being used for. The amount of personal data that is discreetly collected by various means is incredible, and by and large people are mostly unaware of it. Continuous electronic surveillance is no longer a dystopian nightmare from an Orwell novel. It is rapidly becoming a reality. Particularly under this government. |
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Post by seniorcitizen007 on Sept 24, 2024 3:45:09 GMT
You're working away on your home computer ... which has an AI system installed to monitor your behaviour. Your door bell rings. "I wonder who that is?" you think. You open the door to find "The men in white coats" ... who say:"Your computer called us ... it's worried about your mental health".
Or ... a Council Enforcement Officer ... and you get a Fixed Penalty Fine for "inappropriate use of language".
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Post by Pacifico on Sept 24, 2024 6:43:01 GMT
New software is being developed to continuously monitor workers at their computers, to improve cybersecurity and be sure only authorised workers have access. It also has the potential to ‘track the user’s emotions in real time’, a controversial new feature of AI, sending out alerts if someone appears tired or stressed and telling them to take a break, for example. Instead of only being used when someone first logs in somewhere, the new software would continuously film them with a webcam or front-facing camera and identify if their face lines up with the expected dimensions I think this is more to do with checking up that those skiving from home are actually doing some work. It should be mandatory for all Public Sector staff. |
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Post by Vinny on Sept 24, 2024 8:18:44 GMT
USA's NSA and our GCHQ already have data links into ISPs watching everything we post with everything we post being cached and recorded for four years, that's one of the reasons internet subscriptions are so expensive here.
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Post by piglet on Sept 27, 2024 8:57:35 GMT
My emotions aree written on my face, i cant help it, someone would be ringing an ambulance all the time. Especially in my last two years when i was badly burnt out. Being surveiled would certainly open new doors to quitting, like flicking the bird at the screen, or making a gun with your fingers, and pointing it at the screen. Vinny, is this really being recorded?
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Sept 27, 2024 11:15:05 GMT
One has to ask who is monitering these systems and who is analyising and collating this data? We all know these systems eventually become an open door and a great deal of data will end up in the public domain... I read a report today where many have died in accidents who use Apple phones which automatically send out an SOS in times of peril which have been ignored by the police and other emergency services.. What I think is happening is one of the bad effects of the UK having a large military manufacturing sector. For example if you want to get a technical job and you live anywhere near Yeovil, most of those jobs require security clearance, i.e. they are working in the military sector. This means your average technical engineer will quite likely have experience working in this sector. Engineers circulate around, they talk to each other and bounce ideas of new things their art can be used for. BT is a large firm that spends a lot on basic research, said to be in the region of one billion/yr the last I heard.
Now considering the above, all jobs of this kind revolve around solving problems, and those problems are part of a larger problem until in the military sector the master problem is how to defeat your enemy. It's the usual solutions, as per more firepower, greater accuracy, better intelligence on your enemy. Can you see how an engineer used to solving these problems is going to think for non-military products. We the citizen then become the enemy. Like with AI for example. AI could help your frail granny find her whatever, or it can be used as a killer robot. Some things are best left uninvented, but we Brits invent them anyway. We caused the nuclear arms race.
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