The workplace has become a surveillance state

stapp · Nov 27, 2024

Office buildings have become like web browsers – they're full of tracking technology, a trend documented in a report out this week by Cracked Labs.
The study, titled "Tracking Indoor Location, Movement and Desk Occupancy in the Workplace," looks at how motion sensing and wireless network technology in buildings is being used to monitor the movement and behavior of office workers and visitors.
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Cisco, the report explains, uses Wi-Fi access points and other wireless networking infrastructure to track the location of employees, customers, devices and other objects. It does so, in Switchzilla's own words, to "gain insights into how people and things move throughout their physical spaces" and "understand the behavior and location of people (visitors, employees) and things (assets, sensors)." The biz calls its cloud-based location tracking system Cisco Spaces.
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https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/27/workplace_surveillance/

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