5 ways corporate HR departments monitor your movements — even when you’re not working

5 ways corporate HR departments monitor your movements — even when you’re not working



The rebranding of “personnel” to “human resources” three decades ago signaled that employees were now resources to be managed like any other capital, such as finances, office equipment and property

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The Testing Ground for the New Surveillance — Medium

The Testing Ground for the New Surveillance — Medium:

"The Testing Ground for the New Surveillance
Oakland, California"

Graphic description of a new surveillance program for Oakland.

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Facebook and Epidemiological Modelling

This study from the Department of Mechanical And Aerospace Engineering at Princeton argues that the disease and recovery model they consider for online social networks "predicts a rapid decline in Facebook activity in the next few years."



http://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.4208v1.pdf





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Michael Geist - The Shameful Canadian Silence on Surveillance

Michael Geist - The Shameful Canadian Silence on Surveillance:

"The U.S. reaction stands in stark contrast to the situation in Canada. Canadian government officials have said little about Canadian surveillance activities, despite leaks of spying activities, cooperation with the NSA, a federal court decision that criticized the intelligence agencies for misleading the court, and a domestic metadata program which remains shrouded in secrecy. In fact, the government seems to have moved in the opposite direction, by adopting a lower threshold for warrants seeking metadata than is required for standard warrants in Bill C-13."

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Princeton engineers predict Facebook may lose 80% of users by 2017 - Technorati Social Media

Princeton engineers predict Facebook may lose 80% of users by 2017 - Technorati Social Media:

"According to new research from Princeton, which compared the ”adoption and abandonment dynamics” of social networks by “drawing analogy to the dynamics that govern the spread of infectious disease,” Facebook is beginning to die out. "Like the bubonic plague, Facebook will eventually come to an end," writes Eric Markowitz of Vocativ."

Social Media as virus or perhaps mass hallucination.

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Deloitte TMT Predictions 2014 | Deloitte Canada

Deloitte TMT Predictions 2014 | Deloitte Canada:

Deloitte TMT Predictions 2014 from Deloitte Canada

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