School custodian refuses to download app that monitors location, got her fired

Re:School custodian refuses to download app that monitors lo... by SamBam on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @12:25PM (#26794765)

I'd rephrase: it's ok to monitor that the jobs are being performed, and sometimes this involves an employee doing something in a certain place at a certain time.

Though highly-overlapping, this is not a 1:1 correspondence with "tracking employees."

You may need to know that a security guard visited this station at 1:00 and this station at 1:30. You do not need to track whether he was in the bathroom five minutes longer today that yesterday.

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Re:School custodian refuses to download app that monitors lo... by bluGill on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @01:11PM (#26795570)

A real guard needs to run a somewhat random schedule, otherwise attackers will figure out the pattern. I don't need to know how long you spend in the bathroom (unless it is excessive), that is just data that I happen to get by tracking to ensure there is enough randomness in your patterns. It should go without saying that guards need sufficient time to handle biology needs, and this varies a bit.

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Re:School custodian refuses to download app that monitors lo... by dheera on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @04:20PM (#26798674)

If you are so high profile that attackers are trying to profile guard movement patterns, you need more than 1 guard, and they can take turns using the bathroom.

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