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11 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The question is will Santa bring gifts after clicking "don't allow".
I think we should also discuss Santa's monopoly power.
Hm, 4% of Santa's annual global turnover may amount up to something.
Btw. To debunk a popular myth, Santa doesn't actually "see you when you're sleeping".

It's a dummy cam:

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14 Dec
argyle.com, a US startup that aims to aggregate employment records across employers, including data on work activities and reputation, and sell it to recruiters, lenders, insurers. It claims it has already access to 40m records.

This is terrifying + shouldn't exist. Image
"The short term objective for Argyle is access to 100% of employment records; the reason for fundraising at this moment is to quicken the date of 100% access"

From the company's "funding memo":
notion.so/Argyle-A-Round…

Argyle has raised $20m+ in funding:
crunchbase.com/organization/a… Image
"We started with building coverage where Equifax has not - in the gig economy"
notion.so/Argyle-A-Round…

US data brokers have been gathering+selling data on work history/salary for decades, which also shouldn't happen. Argyle's sales pitch suggests they want to go far beyond that.
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14 Dec
Predicio, a French data broker who was caught selling location data harvested from ordinary smartphone apps to the US defense contractor Venntel, also provides 'foot traffic data' in partnership with Aspectum, another US company who sells to law enforcement and homeland security. Image
Aspectum (aka EOS Data Analytics) claims to provide 'geospatial insight based on cell phone activity and other data sources for a better understanding of local social interaction hazards' such as 'demonstrations, protests, riots, and other mass civil disorder acts', for example. Image
Sources:
aspectum.com/industry-publi…
aspectum.com/data-on-demand/

As a part of a 'combined offer from Aspectum and Predicio', that 'enables' clients 'to track and analyze human activities', 'foot traffic data' is 'available for selected countries' including the US and most EU countries. Image
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13 Dec
Microsoft Teams for Education knows what students are doing late at night.

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It also knows what students are doing early in the morning, at individual level.

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Generally, MS Teams for Education has extensive student monitoring capabilities built in.

Its 'Insights' tool can track which meetings students attend and for how long, what tabs they view, if they open files, post messages, reply or react with emojis.
edudownloads.azureedge.net/msdownloads/Mi… Image
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11 Dec
Today's digital advertising based on selling user data to the highest bidder has been called the 'largest data breach ever', and yes:

Two firms who sell targeted+mass surveillance to governments are hoovering phone location data from the ad/rtb bidstream: forbes.com/sites/thomasbr…
One of the players, Bsightful, is part-owned by the US surveillance giant Verint, who reportedly supplied phone tapping tech to the NSA.

The other, Rayzone, sells a "Global Virtual SIGINT" system that promises "wide, diverse and in-depth information on global internet users".
According to Forbes, Bsightful is "hoovering up app location data by running what’s known as a Demand Side Platform (DSP)".

That way, they can collect "location and other phone data the app developers are willfully providing, the data passing through [the so-called] bidstream".
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29 Nov
Microsoft claims that its MS 365 'productivity score' is not a worker monitoring tool, but should only help diagnose system issues.

Also, MS holds a patent on using 'productivity services data' to single out individuals, deploy 'behavior change' programs, and monitor compliance.
"Yourself and a group of your colleagues have been provided a focus time plan ... to get your important work done"

Microsoft patent "Systems, methods, and software for implementing a behavior change management program":
freepatentsonline.com/20190259298.pdf

H/T, thx!
yro.slashdot.org/story/20/11/29…
The patent reads like the design of an ubiquitous employee monitoring dystopia, presented in the antiseptic language of benevolent behaviorism.

Patents don't necessarily become products, but it is very close to what MS is already providing. It also mentions data from Office 365.
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24 Nov
Esoteric metrics based on analyzing extensive data about employee activities has been mostly the domain of fringe software vendors. Now it's built into MS 365.

A new feature to calculate 'productivity scores' turns Microsoft 365 into an full-fledged workplace surveillance tool: Image
Employers/managers can analyze employee activities at the individual level (!), for example, the number of days an employee has been sending emails, using the chat, using 'mentions' in emails etc.

Microsoft promo video:


Via Heise:
heise.de/news/Anwenderu… Image
Showing data on individuals can be turned off, but it's activated *by default*. This normalizes extensive workplace surveillance in a way not seen before.

I don't think employers can legally use it in most EU countries. I'm sure they cannot legally use it in Austria and Germany. Image
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