[Gllug] Microsoft applies for patent to monitor workers

[M.Blackmore]

MICROSOFT APPLIES FOR PATENT TO MONITOR WORKERS

On January 17th, the Patent Office posted a Microsoft patent application
for a monitoring system that could link workers to their computers. The
system could monitor worker’s heart rates, body temperatures, movements,
and blood pressure. Further, the system could pick up stress or
frustration, and let the employer know the employee needed help.
Commentators expressed their concern about privacy issues and worried
that
workers could be fired based on what the computer said they were doing.
The full copy of the application may be found at
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220070300174%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20070300174&RS=DN/20070300174


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