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The Wayne ([personal profile] thewayne) wrote2007-09-04 07:04 am

NY schools employee sacked after being tracked by the GPS in his cell phone.

His company-provided cell phone, that is. Unless you live in Connecticut or Delaware, you don't have to be notified.

The important thing here is that it was a company cell phone. I'm thinking it would be a privacy issue, like HP's pretexting problems that arose a couple of years ago while they were trying to identify an information leak, if your employer tried it with your private cell phone.

I'm sure there will probably be a union appeal in the near future.

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/09/man-tracked-wit.html
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[personal profile] silveradept 2007-09-04 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Umm. Wow. The perils of having company hardware, apparently. Shouldn't your timesheet/timeclock be the arbiter of your time spent, not your telephone?