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@Pcar
what about all those BP North America folk ? all their data is anonymous and confidential? I'd expect that eventually the RFID (NFC) tags in the health trackers will be integrated in corporate access control mechanisms etc ...
I know some of what Schlumberger subject its employees to in terms of intrusive monitoring of their lives *outside* work hours - which is added into their HR assessments....
Headbands to detect impure thoughts linked to corporate data centres which message rectal tasers?
tomo
@tomo
In other news - ICYMI - I certainly did .... Lifestyle tracking for employees
From article you linked to
Vista Staffing Solutions, a healthcare recruitment agency, started a weight-loss programme using Fitbits and wifi-enabled bathroom scales.
and from BBC article they link to:
Oil giant BP's North American business offers its staff Fitbit fitness trackers - wearable bands or clip-on devices that monitor your steps, calorie intake and sleep patterns.
imho it's more fake news as the devices are being offered to employees to help them diet, become fitter etc. No different from offering fitness club/gym membership, company car, season ticket loans etc.
Pcar
@EM 4:13
Happy to oblige.
It just might be the truth and set me on a path to salvation - but I've given both the benefit of doubt and tried in the past to work past their obvious shortcomings and still felt that neither was honest. If there's some truth to be had - even the same one (possibly) - I'll get it from elsewhere....
The Think Progress kennel where Romm patrols is a stinking pit of politically driven climate fascism - you are aware of their antics ?
tomo
The Washington Times tells it like it is !
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/1/big-green-biggest-loser-of-2016/
Ross Lea
EM, I made it clear that I could not access your link. I did not say it was inaccessible.
Joe Romm's expertise is propaganda and snark. He represents the Progressives on both sides of the Atlantic very well. He is currently trying to swim against the current of Unreliables going over a cliff.
Northern Ireland's Political Classes are reeling after the most recent subsidy scam exposure (and I have not got involved with Left/Right v. Protestant/Catholic). The USA is about to rectify political abuse of power, after the abusers lost it, the UK has no reason to reverse its policy U-Turn following BREXIT, and the EU is finally understanding how unpopular it has made itself in the remainder of the EU.
Which bit are you celebrating? I see it all as being quite encouraging.
golf charlie
@Tomo I see EM lives in an echo chamber
#groupthink
stewgreen
@Tomo Jan 4, 2017 at 12:42 PM
Over last 2 Weeks Times been running investigation
But knowledge been around ages
Eg D Mail on Dec 13 pg 9 listed 10 aid wasting projects.
"Girl Bands and Ant watchers"
stewgreen
Tomo
You rather make my point.
Entropic man
Stewgreen
I do get the occasional echo. :-)
BH occasionally reverts to the pre-submission screen. I think that the comment has not loaded and submit it again.
Tomo, golf charlie
I read blogs from the far left to the far right, climate activist and climate deniers. That is why I read both Think progress and BH.
It would be blinkered to read only those sites which tell me what I want to hear. How would I come to a measured judgement?
If you really only read the right wing climate denier sites, then I can understand your narrow view of the world.