Bosses can now spy on employees using their mobile phones

With technology moving way too fast for us to keep up with, it indeed is pretty scary as to what heights it will take us in the future. Imagine how it would be if our every move, every breath could be tracked by our employer from some far off place. Why, soon even our walk to the restroom and the nod of our head could be recorded by a computer system and transmitted to our prying boss! All thanks to the brainboxes of Japan’s KDDI, all of this and more is possible using the very gadget we cannot live without – our mobile phone!

KDDI Corporation, one of Japan’s largest telecommunications operators has come up with this ingenious, or shall we say intruding mobile phone that has the ability to track the user’s every move. The device can pick up even the tiniest of movements apart from activities like walking, cleaning and climbing the stairs. It can detect abnormal behaviour by comparing it with a set of common movements that can be stored in a server.

According to the Japanese telecommunications operator, the aim of the system is to provide managers an efficient method to evaluate the performance of their employees while they are not in office and thereby facilitate the efficient working of employees. The company is apparently looking to sell the system to employment agencies and managers.

Some experts believe that the system is a crucial innovation, which when applied to fields such as telemedicine could initiate a giant step for mankind. But of course, there are some who are of the opinion that such systems could pose a threat to an individual’s right to privacy.

Human rights lawyer Kazuo Hizumi says that KDDI’s technology in treating human beings like machines. Well, one can definitely argue either ways. But we can’t shut our eyes to innovation in any form, can we? We might as well think of ways to implement it for the good.

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