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Japan pushed the mobile monitoring system, can monitor employees' every move
Publishing Time:2010-4-08 11:35  No.of Visits:2513

Japanese mobile phone giant KDDI company recently launched a new mobile phone surveillance system, a boss to use the system can monitor the employee's every move, just read the employee data in mobile phones equipped with accelerator, can know the employee's whereabouts.

Japanese mobile phone giant KDDI company recently launched a new mobile phone surveillance system, a boss to use the system can monitor the employee's every move, just read the employee data in mobile phones equipped with accelerator, can know the employee's whereabouts. Developers believe that the phone will be useful in terms of remote medical monitoring system, but also some people will doubt its serious invasion of privacy.

Developers said the activities such as walking, climbing stairs or even cleaning can be detected. For example, KDDI mobile phone wrist strapped to a cleaner, mobile phones can discern the scrub, gently clean the rubbish, walking, and the difference between. Therefore, when the employee is not in the line of sight range, the new system allows employers to better evaluate the working efficiency of the employees. Company plans to sell to the managers, the foreman and recruitment firm the system.

International university of Japan mobile consumers laboratory director Philip Sue think, this is a very important innovation in the field of electronic remote medical treatment, can through the technology to understand the patient's every move, but improper use may also invasion of privacy.

KDDI hengshan yu, head of the line network data research department said: "this technology will enable the company management to centralized monitoring in different areas of activity of employees, and companies are the effective technology of the high work efficiency. We are still in the study of various can make managers more accurately distinguish between employees through this platform technology of various kinds of behavior." At the same time, he said, of course, before using the system, the employer must obtain the consent of the employee.

But critics say the system catered to control excessive, "big brother" type of management, and easy to be abused.