Who's More Tech Savvy? Employees Or Employers?
I came across two separate stories today at about the same time, which seemed to be saying very different things, but seem worth discussing together. The first is about how big companies are...
View ArticlePreventing Your Employees From Watching Videos Won't Prevent Them From...
We've been saying for years that the notion that employee web surfing at work constitutes "lost profits" is nonsense. There is an infinite number of ways employees can waste time at work, from...
View ArticleTurns Out Viacom Is Really Interested In What Google Employees Are...
With all the fuss over a court telling Google it needs to give Viacom its log files, Google and Viacom have been discussing ways to hand over the data and retain anonymity (not an easy task). However,...
View ArticleDear Motorola: Instead Of Suing Competitors, Maybe Figure Out Why Employees...
As a company, if things aren't going well, it's often difficult to accept that some of the blame may be on your end -- which makes it especially easy to lash out at competitors, assigning blame to...
View ArticleIs Nokia Demanding The Right To Spy On Its Employees?
There's quite a story making the rounds, suggesting that Nokia is putting significant pressure on the Finnish government, demanding that it pass a law allowing it to spy on its employees, or the...
View ArticleYour Fired Employees Are Stealing Your Data
It probably shouldn't come as a big surprise that a new study says 60 percent of employees keep corporate data after they leave a job. The most common types of retained data are things like contact...
View ArticleFinland Agrees To Let Companies Spy On Workers
Last month, we noted the controversy in Finland, as a new law was up for debate concerning whether or not companies there could spy on employee email. Beyond the general controversy, there were rumors...
View ArticleJapan's Smile Scanners A Classic Misuse Of Technology
As pointed out on the Freakonomics Blog: Japan's Keihin Express Railway Co. has set up "smile scanners" at 15 of its stations, where railway employees have their smiles assessed by software in the...
View ArticleScuba Diving Organizer Sues Web Forum After Debate Over Scuba Death Liability
When will companies learn? Blaine points us to a story that's now a few months old, but still worth talking about. Apparently, two years ago, there was a scuba diving accident where someone died and...
View ArticleTSA Agents Absolutely Hate New Pat Downs, Find Them Disgusting And Morale...
One of the common themes that people keep mentioning in talking about the new TSA pat down procedures is that those involved must "enjoy" the groping they're giving people. But, of course, most TSA...
View ArticleWalmart Employees Fired For Disarming Gun-Toting Robber
Walmart has pretty specific rules for how employees are supposed to deal with shoplifters, however, it does seem a bit bizarre that the company would go so far as to fire some employees who disarmed a...
View ArticleWho Owns Employee Social Media Accounts? 'The Correct Answer Is: Shut Up'
Back in October, we had a post looking into the legal issues of who actually owns a Twitter account, especially when a famous employee of a large corporation uses the Twitter account as a part of his...
View ArticleMajor Labels Back To Going After Vimeo For Its Lipdubs
You may recall that, back in 2009, a bunch of the major labels filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against online video site Vimeo, paying particular attention to the fact that the site had...
View ArticleDailyDirt: Improving Productivity
There are only so many hours in a day. It'd be great to be able to get more done in less time, and people are always looking for easy (or any!) solutions that might boost their productivity. Some...
View ArticleFor An Intelligence Agency, The NSA Doesn't Seem To Have Much Idea What's...
Better late than never, the NSA seems like it's finally getting around to fixing the problems on the inside of the agency. So sharp is the fear of threats from within that last year the NSA planned to...
View ArticleItalian Spyware Company Execs Arrested After Company Employees Spied On...
Any tool that gives people access to tons of personal data will be abused. Law enforcement databases are routinely misused by government employees. Ring — law enforcement’s favorite consumer home...
View ArticleAnother Coronavirus Side Effect: In-Home Surveillance By Remote Workers'...
Well, it took a pandemic to normalize domestic surveillance by [checks notes] employers. Not sure if this is the dystopia we needed or the one we deserved, but the shelter-in-place policies that have...
View ArticleNY AG Opens Inquiry After Charter Spectrum Bungles Its Coronavirus Response
By and large, most major ISPs have handled the labor angle of COVID-19 relatively well, with giants like Comcast and AT&T offered hazard pay, and Verizon slowing new broadband, phone, and TV...
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Tim Bray, Early Internet Guru, And Amazon VP Quits Over The 'Chickenshit'...
If you do anything internet related, hopefully you already know Tim Bray. Among tons of other things, he helped develop XML and a variety of other standards/technologies the internet relies on. He’s...
View ArticleFacebook Employee Revolt Shows, Yet Again, That There Are Other Incentives...
One of the most frustrating claims that critics of Section 230 make is that because of Section 230 the big internet companies have no incentive to deal with awful content (abuse, harassment, bigotry,...
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