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What about this piece is light on facts? I’ve read it and it seems pretty well substantiated. The question this piece is focusing on isn’t whether this behavio
by save_ferris 7y ago
What about this piece is light on facts? I’ve read it and it seems pretty well substantiated.
The question this piece is focusing on isn’t whether this behavior is legal or not. The question is whether or not it’s the right way to treat their people.
Keep in mind that Facebook earns its living by harvesting data on users, mining it, and selling ads on it.
Now they’ve demonstrated a willingness to demand to know every little detail about a worker’s day, presumably under the guise of productivity.
People love to talk about surveillance capitalism and it’s similarly to “1984” (which I don’t necessarily disagree with), but here’s a perfect example of an authority demanding to know everything about you throughout the course of a day. Sure, they’re not a government, but given their size and power, they might as well be for the sake of this argument.