[PLUG] Big Data Surplus (Surveillance Capitalism)

[Ben Koenig]

On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 11:01 AM Mike C. <mconnors1 at gmail.com> 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...