bluestarultorJan 21, 2023

World Economic Forum speaker touts technology that allows your boss to monitor your brain activity - LifeSite
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/world-economic-forum-speaker-touts-technology-that-allows-your-boss-to-monitor-your-brain-activity/

Jesus Christ. 😬

The fact you wouldn't be able to trust a fucking company hat or seemingly innocent phone headset under this "utopia" makes me feel mandatory Humanities education should be enforced by raid if necessary in tech circles. There is not a word for what's wrong with these people.

World Economic Forum speaker touts technology that allows your boss to monitor your brain activity - LifeSite

Nita Farahany admits the discovery that we’re already tracking brain activity in the workplace made her shudder. But she is now hailing the benefits, insisting that they can be used without abuse.

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Show threadbluestarultorJan 21, 2023

Just to collect and expand some thoughts from the discussion below:

Office culture is grossly inefficient and propped up by the lie that micromanaging makes productivity. Remote work has already disproven this; leaked metrics would put embarrassing hard numbers to it.

Revealing how miserable office workers are on the whole would probably not do much. Revealing any outliers would do LOTS, one way or another.

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If any company was significantly worse off, that would cause reputation damage that they'd need to spend money to mitigate, especially if there was a viable competitor to switch to.

If any company was significantly BETTER off, that would spark a scramble to see what they're doing different and the answer to it would probably be stuff nobody wanted to actually do, but they'd all pay lip service to it. It also tells top performers where to apply.

Show threadbluestarultorJan 21, 2023

For the average worker, the invasion itself would be demoralizing, but the purpose here is that specifically. If they want you gone, they WILL find a reason. This just gives them an easy one for anyone.

However, that comes at the cost of centralizing the data, which currently is VERY private and widely distributed and often protected by being done on paper.

It's the "perfect" solution that's secretly a ticking time bomb and once it blows, it's done.

Show threadbluestarultorJan 21, 2023

The fact of the matter is it will ultimately blow over exactly once, but if it keeps happening, that's going to impact the businesses that facilitate it. There are 2 types of companies: ones that have been hacked, and ones that don't know it yet.

If it hits the news once, it will give their clients pause. If it hits the news annually, the smart ones won't be on the list.

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They'll also probably have security like a screen door on a submarine, because of course they will. Throw a few bugs in a few potted plants and you can probably cause a security risk right there if the goal is to hack people's brains. No password will be safe. Any physical access at all is going to give you someone's login. Drop one in an elevator and see how high it goes. Might get you some fantastic access.
Jan 21, 2023 at 2:14amWeb
Show threadbluestarultorJan 21, 2023

Fact of the matter is that the main reasons this sort of leak is inevitable are 1) digitization and 2) centralization. This sort of thing by its nature is geared toward metrics and that means the dividends of it are being compounded continuously.

More widespread metrics like mouse clicks and keystrokes are faked easily enough and Microsoft doesn't skim content.

This would specifically skim content. That's what makes it a security risk.