As the fable goes, the frog does not jump out of the gradually-heated pot of water--it doesn't even notice--and is boiled to death.
I think dystopia will arrive in such a fashion (arguably has already). But the heat keeps rising:
Colombia-based call center workers who provide outsourced customer service to some of the nation’s largest companies are being pressured to sign a contract that lets their employer install cameras in their homes to monitor work performance, an NBC News investigation has found.I work from home too. Shortly after, the company wanted to encourage camera use for online meetings. Around the same time, they put out this electronic policy that every employee had to sign. As with most short-sighted, greedy companies, there was nary a word about privacy in that electronic agreement. Theoretically, a person who signed that policy and installed a camera could be spied upon in their own home, without their knowledge and the company would at least have that signed document (and arguably, the employee's consent) in their defense. I made my objections clear, as any self, spouse, family, and privacy-respecting person should. My camera remains unplugged and I never signed that piece of trash.
You have to push back. You, me, we have more power than one might realize. It feels good to use it now and then.
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