Mobile phone for spying on employees

New software for the mobile phone enables curious bosses to follow every movement of their employees at a distance.
Investigators of the Japanese telephone giant KDDI developed a mobile phone which can even register the smallest movements of the users. Next the data will be sent to a head office.

The program makes uses of gear meters which normally can be found in modern sets.
By an analyze of these sensors, complex movements can be different from each other. The program sees of the use walks, climbs a three or of the user is cleaning. Even the difference between the cleaning activities such as scrubbing or sweeping can be distinguished by the program.
The company has the intention to sell the technique to managers, chef or Job Centers, but it can also be skilful by monitoring a patient at a distance.

Efficienty
The aim of the new system is according to KDDI to enable employees to work more efficient and it gives managers the possibility to judge their employees better.
“Of course there is the privacy aspect and the employers have to achieve an agreement before they are going to use the system” says Hiroyuki YokoYama, chief web data research of KDDI.
It is not the first time that employees are spied on via their mobile phones by their bosses. Japanese truck chauffeurs are spied on for a longer time with the GPS-receiver in their mobile phones.

Machines
Privacy interest groups are not pleased with the developments in Japan, where the privacy discussion is less fierce then elsewhere. “People are treated as machines, or as cattle’s which are watch out constantly” says human rights layer Kazuo Hizumi. “New techniques have to be used to improve our quality of life, not to spy on us”.