Sean Gallagher reports: Comparing their actions to the plot this season on the Showtime series Homeland, an attorney for former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros has filed a complaint in federal court against Fox News, current and former Fox executives, Peter Snyder and his financial firm Disruptor Inc., and 50 “John Doe” defendants. The suit…
Category: Workplace
Workplace Surveillance Is The New Office ‘Perk’
SI Rosenbaum reports: The snack machine wants to scan Alice’s fingerprints. Alice — not her real name — would prefer not to surrender her biometric data just to get a candy bar, but it’s the preferred option in the break room. She could input a personal code, instead, but either way everything she orders from…
A Swedish Company Is Using Microchips to Track Its Employees
Lawrence N. Shew reports: A Brave New World is beginning to take shape in Sweden as a Stockholm-based firm, Epicenter, is currently experimenting with microchip implants meant to replace swipe-card technology. Is this the future of employee tracking devices? Epicenter believes so. Epicenter managed to convince 150 employees to allow the implantation of a small…
Busted: Australian Tax Office exposed voter-profiling its own public servants during industrial ballot
Noel Towell reports: The Tax Office has been forced to admit it secretly handed sensitive employment details on its own workforce to a private firm in an attempt to voter-profile an all-staff industrial ballot. The ATO covertly supplied its contractor with the names, email addresses, locations of work and pay grades of each of its 19000 employees without…