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Eye tracking is already live in production. Had the joy to see some contractors at work. The webcam is recording 24/7 to ensure their face is in front of the s

Eye tracking is already live in production. Had the joy to see some contractors at work. The webcam is recording 24/7 to ensure their face is in front of the screen. If the employee looks away for a second, the screen flashes something about no user being present. If somebody else shows up in the field of view, for example me walking by, the screen flashes something about an unauthorized user. The session is locked out after a few notifications.

GekkePrutser 6y ago
Wow I would hate to work there. Unless this is some kind of top-secret government consultancy thing that is totally unappropriate.
- user5994461 6y ago
  The work involves reading and reviewing some documents. Some confidential documents but nothing fancy. It's minimum wage, hourly contracting with no benefits.
  - zentiggr 6y ago
    So in other words, easily swapped out for something far more humane. Sounds like the best path.
toyg 6y ago
Please tell us where this is happening, so that we can avoid ever working there. Pretty sure this would be illegal in most European countries.
- user5994461 6y ago
  The software is made by a US software company. You have to onboard user accounts to them, install the authentication software on a laptop, and it will open a remote desktop to an AWS workspace. The session is constantly tracking the user's face and gets terminated if they look away for a minute. Contractors are disconnected regularly because their face stopped being recognized, or they can't login in the first place after 5 tries. Recall one contractor that contacted support because they couldn't login, support told him that their face was too dark.
  - ChuckNorris89 6y ago
    >The session is constantly tracking the user's face and gets terminated if they look away for a minute The hell did I just read?! Can't tell if this is satire or real at his point but anyway let me just beat your employee tracking system by propping up a photo of my face in front of the webcam. Wait, is your fancy system looking for features of life like facial twitches and eye movement to not be fooled by a photo? Fine, here's a deepfaked avatar of my face acting alive powered by nvidia's latest deep learning magic. See where this is going?
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- zebnyc 6y ago
  Had the pleasure of applying to reddit earlier this year. Was sent a link for an online test (hackerrank if I remember right) for which I needed to keep my camera ON.
Loughla 6y ago
Higher education 'anti-cheating' technology is just like that. They're trash. This is what it looks like for students: use your laptop webcam to scan the room with your webcam, remove anything deemed suspicious; provide proof of identity (student id), wait for the software to register your face, name, and identity; test opens take test, do not look down or it locks, do not look away or it locks, do not refer to your notes or it locks, do not have people walk behind you or it locks, do not have pets walk behind you or it locks, do not have posters of movies behind you or it registers as a person and locks, do not accidentally click another tab or window or it locks, do not use any of the built-in windows accessibility tools or certain 3rd party accessibility tools (dragon software) or it locks, do not use a mac or it locks; fail test. Single parents, individuals living with many people in the home, and anyone who does not have access to an isolated quiet, alone work space is screwed. And it's completely asinine. Just ridiculous.
mpfundstein 6y ago
which country was that? and what work did the contractors do?

GekkePrutser 6y ago

Wow I would hate to work there. Unless this is some kind of top-secret government consultancy thing that is totally unappropriate.

user5994461 6y ago
The work involves reading and reviewing some documents. Some confidential documents but nothing fancy. It's minimum wage, hourly contracting with no benefits.
- zentiggr 6y ago
  So in other words, easily swapped out for something far more humane. Sounds like the best path.

toyg 6y ago

Please tell us where this is happening, so that we can avoid ever working there. Pretty sure this would be illegal in most European countries.

user5994461 6y ago
The software is made by a US software company. You have to onboard user accounts to them, install the authentication software on a laptop, and it will open a remote desktop to an AWS workspace. The session is constantly tracking the user's face and gets terminated if they look away for a minute. Contractors are disconnected regularly because their face stopped being recognized, or they can't login in the first place after 5 tries. Recall one contractor that contacted support because they couldn't login, support told him that their face was too dark.
- ChuckNorris89 6y ago
  >The session is constantly tracking the user's face and gets terminated if they look away for a minute The hell did I just read?! Can't tell if this is satire or real at his point but anyway let me just beat your employee tracking system by propping up a photo of my face in front of the webcam. Wait, is your fancy system looking for features of life like facial twitches and eye movement to not be fooled by a photo? Fine, here's a deepfaked avatar of my face acting alive powered by nvidia's latest deep learning magic. See where this is going?
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zebnyc 6y ago
Had the pleasure of applying to reddit earlier this year. Was sent a link for an online test (hackerrank if I remember right) for which I needed to keep my camera ON.

Loughla 6y ago

Higher education 'anti-cheating' technology is just like that. They're trash. This is what it looks like for students: use your laptop webcam to scan the room with your webcam, remove anything deemed suspicious; provide proof of identity (student id), wait for the software to register your face, name, and identity; test opens take test, do not look down or it locks, do not look away or it locks, do not refer to your notes or it locks, do not have people walk behind you or it locks, do not have pets walk behind you or it locks, do not have posters of movies behind you or it registers as a person and locks, do not accidentally click another tab or window or it locks, do not use any of the built-in windows accessibility tools or certain 3rd party accessibility tools (dragon software) or it locks, do not use a mac or it locks; fail test. Single parents, individuals living with many people in the home, and anyone who does not have access to an isolated quiet, alone work space is screwed. And it's completely asinine. Just ridiculous.

mpfundstein 6y ago

which country was that? and what work did the contractors do?