[font face="Verdana"]f*ck Microsoft. This sounds like something they would develop and promote. I hate them more every single day.
[/font] [hr size="2" width="100%"][h1 class="heading"][small][small]Microsoft seeks patent for office 'spy' software[/small][/small][/h1] Microsoft is developing Big Brother-style software capable of remotely monitoring a worker's productivity, physical wellbeing and competence. [/p] The Times has seen a patent application filed by the company for a computer system that links workers to their computers via wireless sensors that measure their metabolism. The system would allow managers to monitor employees' performance by measuring their heart rate, body temperature, movement, facial expression and blood pressure. Unions said they fear that employees could be dismissed on the basis of a computer's assessment of their physiological state.[/p]Microsoft submitted a patent application in the US for a "unique monitoring system" that could link workers to their computers. Wireless sensors could read "heart rate, galvanic skin response, EMG, brain signals, respiration rate, body temperature, movement facial movements, facial expressions and blood pressure", the application states.[/p][a href="vny!://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3193480.ece"]vny!://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3193480.ece[/a]
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