UK Labor Union: No RFID Employee Tracking
A UK labor union is raising the red flag on the dehumanizing effects of ubiquitous, persistent, RFID-based employee tracking. And they don’t just want regulation, but are actually taking action:
The GMB warned supermarkets last month that they face strike action if they continue to “dehumanise” shelf-stackers and warehouse staff by forcing them to use wearable computers that track movement and time how long it takes to complete tasks with RFID and GPS.
The first RFID strike?
Some employee tracking has been found to be a clear violation of privacy, at least in Portugal. In 1997, the Portuguese courts tossed out a system for tracking employee bathroom time (see section 5.2) (sorry, link in portuguese). That system used magnetic cards and monitored the entrance and exits into bathrooms.