Could be a US vs Europe thing, maybe a specific to Finland or the Scandinavia thing, but I generally doubt it and think you’re naïve to the experience of most people’s jobs. Britain is quite famously even more omni-surveilled than the US.
I work management in retail, cameras are literally everywhere (and being at least occasionally watched) that there could ever be a legal liability in any form (e.g. a worker or customer doing absolutely anything whatsoever), which is basically everywhere. Manufacturing is the same, cameras are everywhere. On paper it’s mainly for the liability reasons but surveillance is a nice bonus (or the real reason).
My mom worked in corporate telecommunications until last year when she retired, and her job frequently involved discussions about how the networks her company was installing enabled closer employee surveillance. Her stories from work are part of why I care to comment about this, it’s almost laughable to me to see someone thinking this isn’t common. It’s standard. It’s everywhere. The world became a panopticon a decade ago and you’re running late to the realization.
The world became a panopticon a decade ago and you’re running late to the realization.
Or maybe you’re just generalising your experiences and assuming that eg. the laws regarding what employers can do with cameras are the same everywhere?
where are you working that your computer isn’t overloaded with snitchware?
I’ve never, ever had a work computer with snitchware, and I’ve worked in multinational gaming companies.
I think this might be a USA vs Europe thing, because seriously this “every workplace is a panopticon” just isn’t a thing at least in Finland.
Also, not every workplace is something where you deal with computers etc. Manufacturing and so on still exist.
Could be a US vs Europe thing, maybe a specific to Finland or the Scandinavia thing, but I generally doubt it and think you’re naïve to the experience of most people’s jobs. Britain is quite famously even more omni-surveilled than the US.
I work management in retail, cameras are literally everywhere (and being at least occasionally watched) that there could ever be a legal liability in any form (e.g. a worker or customer doing absolutely anything whatsoever), which is basically everywhere. Manufacturing is the same, cameras are everywhere. On paper it’s mainly for the liability reasons but surveillance is a nice bonus (or the real reason).
My mom worked in corporate telecommunications until last year when she retired, and her job frequently involved discussions about how the networks her company was installing enabled closer employee surveillance. Her stories from work are part of why I care to comment about this, it’s almost laughable to me to see someone thinking this isn’t common. It’s standard. It’s everywhere. The world became a panopticon a decade ago and you’re running late to the realization.
Or maybe you’re just generalising your experiences and assuming that eg. the laws regarding what employers can do with cameras are the same everywhere?
aint no way you’re this dense. Just because your country isn’t surveillancing the planet, doesn’t meant the big 14 haven’t.