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Re:Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics bui... by toyg on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @02:04PM (#25201802)
Please tell us where this is happening, so that we can avoid ever working there. Pretty sure this would be illegal in most European countries.
Re:Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics bui... by user5994461 on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @02:19PM (#25201989)
The software is made by a US software company.

You have to onboard user accounts to them, install the authentication software on a laptop, and it will open a remote desktop to an AWS workspace. The session is constantly tracking the user's face and gets terminated if they look away for a minute.

Contractors are disconnected regularly because their face stopped being recognized, or they can't login in the first place after 5 tries.

Recall one contractor that contacted support because they couldn't login, support told him that their face was too dark.

Re:Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics bui... by ChuckNorris89 on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @03:12PM (#25202517)
>The session is constantly tracking the user's face and gets terminated if they look away for a minute

The hell did I just read?! Can't tell if this is satire or real at his point but anyway let me just beat your employee tracking system by propping up a photo of my face in front of the webcam.

Wait, is your fancy system looking for features of life like facial twitches and eye movement to not be fooled by a photo?

Fine, here's a deepfaked avatar of my face acting alive powered by nvidia's latest deep learning magic.

See where this is going?

Re:Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics bui... by zebnyc on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @04:38PM (#25203259)
Had the pleasure of applying to reddit earlier this year.

Was sent a link for an online test (hackerrank if I remember right) for which I needed to keep my camera ON.