Detecting potential "postal" workers

[Jack]

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So, if used in accordance with my scenario, is it a gross violation of your right to privacy or a potential means to protect the rest of us from those who lose control?

[caphis]

Oh, hell no. That's right up there as one of the most absurd pieces of technology I've ever seen.

I can't say it's an invasion of privacy, though, because it's not being forced on anyone. Any employer who chooses to require employees to use it would be one that I would have *no* desire to work for.

[Technosoul]

Quote by: caphis Oh, hell no. That's right up there as one of the most absurd pieces of technology I've ever seen. I can't say it's an invasion of privacy, though, because it's not being forced on anyone. Any employer who chooses to require employees to use it would be one that I would have *no* desire to work for.

They could promote it by telling people it is used to monitor the heart to insure that workers in high stress jobs do not get a heart attack. (as stress is the common cause of that disease ).

And would be important data collecting to insure that our men in blue (police men in the streets ) remain calm so they do not practice unjustified violence on the citizens.

Insurance providers could use the data to dump people.

But they would need to build more detention centers for the mentally ill, because anyone who is seen as a threat, to his self or others, can be locked up without representation.

And of course it would be mandatory for anyone buying a gun to wear one, as a way to weed out those who might freak out and start shooting all their co-workers.

In fact, that contraption might work better then the "Thought Police" from that book 1984.

Also, if everyone was montitored that way it would help solve crimes where people kill their wife, etc. As the detectives could check the data for the time of the crime to see if the suspect was freaking out.

The right of pravacy? Gee, that was way before my time.

[Kizzume]

I sure hope there aren't any companies that will require that sort of thing. Yipes.

[Technosoul]

Quote by: Kizzume I sure hope there aren't any companies that will require that sort of thing. Yipes.

I pointed out with my silly remarks in an above post what might happen.

But check out the trends -

Mandatory drug testing.

If you want to become a policeman you must pass a mandatory phychological review.

Should technology be used to control the population by spying on them? The trend is heading that way, closed circut security cameras, traffic light cameras that can ticket people for road violations.

The technology in the O.P. might be the next step.

People said "yipes" about the Homeland Security Projects ... but the plan moved ahead none the less.

[Compugasm]

Quote by: Isherwood Let the The Exmocare BT2 erase all your worries.

Now, if they only had a machine to prove your boss wasn't an incompetent asshole.