Microsoft is developing Big Brother-style software capable of remotely monitoring a worker's productivity, physical wellbeing and competence.

...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....

From The Times
January 16, 2008
Alexi Mostrous and David Brown

And you all thought "Keyloggers" were a problem?

How scary is that? Not just because of the specific software and Microsoft, but what it says about our society in general. The implications are horrendous. One small one - you thought it was hard to get health insurance now? Heh....

It says that we are fascists.

Habeas corpus has been eroded, our communications are monitored. a president exists who believes that he is above the Constitution and constitutional laws, and individuals have become irrelevant and stripped of the protections of the Bill of Rights.

The descendants of the Robber Barons are so shortsighted that they cannot understand that if you weaken the individual citizen, you weaken the family, you weaken America,; you weaken America, you place the American corporations and foreign corporations in jeopardy everywhere in the world. You weaken world capitalism. Who defends capitalism in the world if America is weak? I mean the capitalism that has never really existed, the free market kind where government is the referee, not the giver of corporate welfare. If I had the choice of giving economic incentives and loans (corporate welfare) to corporations or to indigent individuals, I would choose the latter. It would cost less.

F.D.R. didn't just save the poor Americans, he saved capitalism from its excesses. If you want to immunize a society from socialism, you preserve individual rights. Remember corporations thrived in Nazi Germany.

Besides you, I, or someone will race to be the first to hack it.

Coming soon, implants that monitor every second of your life!

That's it, I quit...

lol, i could see were they would use it in prisons but in everday life no way. if you had to walk around in led cloting from head to foot so they cant scan you would you do it? i do agree they do have way to much power over the contry. it starts with little things then they keep getting bigger and bigger like a little kid trying to see what they can get a way with. in 50 or so years will we be telling our grandchilldren what freadoms we had and lost? i think the goverment needs a overhall big time alot of the things they do are old fasioned and cant keep up with the changeing world but then again the bill of rights should never be changed. like the copy prection law wasnt it like 5 or 7 years when this contry was born now what is it 75 years? like i said little things they try to get away with then when people start seeing whats really going on they try to put a stop to it but its to late. what i would like to see is like a public vote on such topics and have the people deside what laws we want.

Hahaha! I like the way you put that
The microsoft part scared me.

oooooookay.........creepy.

Yeah, and the software is just gonna cost a couple hundred dollars, no doubt.

And who would monitor them the whole time?

Its all ridiculous....

Cost is not a consideration in this aspect.

They will monitor you, us, them, whomever. Can you say 1984?

Since when did the KGB start working with Microsoft?

^1984? (giggle)

I wonder whether one's internal electrical system would fry the connection.

More evidence that being self-employed, while challenging, might very well be safer.

Orange Blossom

We watch over all, or can do so. Beware the 3-letter agencies.

(Rats, did I type that out loud?)

Instead of catching John Doe watching "adult" material on his computer, now they will be catching people for stupid reasons such as not having enough "positive brain signals" about the company.

Can anyone say "Matrix"?

As for the "3 letter agencies," I don't trust the government or any business with all the "new" personal information they are seeking. Such as the government with the Real ID Act, and companies collecting SS numbers. All it takes is one disgruntal employee to cause enough damage to disrupt customers and citizens information. Plus, remember China hacking into the Pentagon's computers? What if China or even Russia did the same with the "National ID Database" or Microsoft's "National Health Database." and such. tsk..tsk..tskk

Micro$oft must be losing the plot, to publicly apply for such an insidious sounding setup.
But it's no real surprise that they have.
Perhaps they've heard that another company are developing something along these lines, and stuck a patent in just to jump the gun.


Personally, I've been using UBUNTU Linux for several weeks now, and although I'm a bit of a numpty with computers, it's pretty good. And just like the folks on here, there's a big friendly community to help with any problems.
M$ will get no more money from me, so all their future projects will go unfinanced,obviously.

The bad news: Microsoft is thinking about coding this.

The good news: Microsoft will be the one coding this.

Whatever happen to civil disobedience? How many can they arrest. Resist! Don't just talk. Boycott companies that abuse your personal info.