Be aware that Albania is currently not a EU member [0], so none of the EU privacy laws apply (although per the linked NBC article, this proposal is illegal in Albania too [1], so I don't know what that company thinks they're doing).

BTW, this is technically a dupe from two days ago [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession_of_Albania_to_the_Eu...

[1] https://www.idp.al/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Rekomandim_nr_... (Albanian-language pdf)

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28113304 ("Big Tech call center workers face pressure to accept home surveillance")

It didn't take big brother. People willingly lap it up.

The ecosystem that works together turned into an inescapable dragnet.

That's the cost of letting the giants grow so big.

But when a Lucury&Socialization brand comes and promises to make your life Better for the low price of your excess brainwaves… lovely! Sign me up for soma that.

Examining science fiction through the lens of prediction is so reductive and flattens the whole experience of reading, in my view.

Agreed, but I fear we get the best from both worlds.

It makes you appreciate first world employment comforts because this is a company that will happily take any advantage it can.

Only large companies. Small companies would be exempt. I despise most regulations, but wouldn't mind regulating big companies a bit more.

“Gee, I wonder how the world became so dehumanized?”

Remember a similar situation in India when employees went berserk, rightfully so.

[include] Apple spokesperson Nick Leahy said that the company “prohibits the use of video or photographic monitoring by our suppliers and have confirmed Teleperformance does not use video monitoring for any of their teams working with Apple.” Leahy said that Apple had audited Teleperformance in Colombia this year and did not find any “core violations of our strict standards.”

External and internal audits are known for weeks in advance such that they could put a facade on in time. During audits you suddenly don't have a limit on bathroom break time (generally an alert would come at 15mins per day) and there would be pizza at the office every other day. Only 'loyal' employees would be chosen to any interviews/meetings about culture etc.

This will not help keep a single child safe. It’s not a child safety feature, it’s an adult surveillance feature.

1) Stop acting on your current sexual feelings

2) Stop having those feelings

3) Start feeling different sexual feelings somehow, but probably not

At the very least the first step is the same, and equally unlikely to happen. I don't know what the current status is with castration or chemical castration for pedophiles but I wholeheartedly support it. I don't really care if they get the help they need, I don't care about them or their dignity or humanity at all. I only care that they don't rape children.

Well there's different kinds of "acting on". "Don't have consensual sex with another gay person" is a hard sell. "Don't rape anyone" gets pretty good support from everyone. Rape is a lot more about power than it is about attraction, and it's not that easy to figure out who would go there.

I mean apparently they're already uploading photos to Facebook of all places and getting caught there, so you may be overestimating how smart they are.

If you were working one of their other contracts, you may not even be in the same building as the others.

So the Apple ai camera thing is probably specific to Apple as I know a few people who work there in Colombia and don't have cameras when they work from home.

The idea that there is an “Apple ai camera thing” is just the implication from the (misleading) title but it doesn’t exist.

From the article:

> Apple spokesperson Nick Leahy said that the company “prohibits the use of video or photographic monitoring by our suppliers and have confirmed Teleperformance does not use video monitoring for any of their teams working with Apple.”

The article also never makes the claim that the cameras are observing people doing work on an Apple contract - it says that it is Teleperformance who ‘has contracts with Apple’, but not that this is used on the Apple contract.

> a Bogota-based worker on the Apple account ... said that she signed the contract ...because she feared losing her job.

> the new contract, first issued in March. The contract allows monitoring by AI-powered cameras in workers’ homes, voice analytics and storage of data collected from the worker’s family members, including minors

> the contract, a copy of which NBC News has reviewed

You think NBC are gona headline an article risking defamation when they have a contract that would or would not state if this is a legitimate proposal???

Your comment reads like a complete misdirection.

Now they are doing this with remote workers but using AI instead of people?

Plot of I, Robot foiled for a few more years...

It’s like telling a depressed person to just stop being sad. Life doesn’t work like that.

tl;dr ~30% of people are mean-spirited, 20% are win-win types, 20% are risk minimizers, 15% are marks and the other 15% are confused.

Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/colombia-employment-idUSL2N2...

The market will always sort it out!

I might go work for burger king for a day for a new phone as long as I got to keep it after that day. Any longer than that would be a nope.

I am in fear for my loved ones. I am hiding under my blanket.