Spying on employees through accelerometers

The Japanese corporation KDDI (one of the largest mobile operators) has developed an interesting application for the iPhone, which can be used in many companies. The program is installed on the pocket computers of all employees and tracks their movements. Interestingly, it works using the built-in accelerometer, which allows you to record the number of steps (as a simple pedometer). Moreover, separate steps are recognized by stairs or slow moving (important for tracking the work efficiency of some workers, for example, cleaners), and even going to the toilet by the pattern, that is, the program is written quite competently.

All information is collected and sent to the main center, from where the centralized supervision occurs. Information on all employees can be displayed on one monitor and managed in the style of Warcraft.

KDDI plans to sell this tracking system to large corporations and recruitment agencies. Apparently, the service will be offered as part of one of the corporate tariff plans.

According to experts, the traditions of privacy and human rights protection are very poorly developed in Japan. In the media, these topics are rarely discussed, and citizens themselves are surprisingly easy to accept such innovations.
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But privacy experts say that such technologies bring us back to the Middle Ages, that is, during the days of serfdom and the conquered peasants. The employee, in fact, turns into a robot with an accelerometer and a USB-connector. Managing low-skilled staff comes down to programming robots like Lego, when you need to write an action script and a route, and then just watch so that he doesn't stray from the program.

via slashdot