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Welcome to micromanaging hell.

Imagine working remote with this and IT pulls your recall logs. Better yet us "AI" to determine how productive you were yesterday.

I was so hyped for these laptops, but this is just stupid.



>Better yet us "AI" to determine how productive you were yesterday.

You can bet that's exactly where this is going for the corporate world.


This immediately came to my mind as well.

This will be abused. It’s not an “if” but a “when”.


It's already happening but it's 3rd party apps (which are relatively cheap, a couple bucks a seat), so it won't be a huge change.


There are two sides to this: investigations and monitoring. For HR and security investigations, this rewind capability would be very useful, is legal, and at least partially already performed using forensics tools.

Monitoring is where you run into moral and, in some places, legal problems. This would probably be a good topic for new legislation.


> is legal

In any case, an overwhelming amount of Very Bad Things are legal due to corporate laziness, commercial propaganda and anti-education campaigns. "It's legal" cannot be the basis of an argument in favor of legally protecting predatory behavior.


I honestly think that in some legislations with stronger worker protections it'd be legally at least dubious to use something like that for HR or security investigations (in a broad sense) without employee consent.




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