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How is it spying if it's information that's already available to the company, either publicly or as a result of the person being an employee? It's not like they
by sageabilly 11y ago
How is it spying if it's information that's already available to the company, either publicly or as a result of the person being an employee? It's not like they're sending goons to dig through trash cans.
- danvoell 11y agoSorry, I agree, spying may be a stretch. But so too is Big Data. It doesn't take a complex algorithm to determine IsBuyingBirthControl vs. IsNotBuyingBirthControl. I would like to think that I have the option to keep this information private from my employer. The employer's best interest is to minimize costs not to improve my health, most of the time these two correspond but not always.
- bduerst 11y agoWhether or not it's called big data is non-sequitur. Employers have had access to claims data before the tools were available to process it en mass.
- bootload 11y ago"How is it spying if it's information that's already available to the company, either publicly or as a result of the person being an employee?" Inference might be a better word.