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    The Economist‏Verified account @TheEconomist Sep 29
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    An electronic badge can monitor workers’ conversations, posture and time spent in the toiletpic.twitter.com/hq7731cqbA

    3:01 PM - 29 Sep 2019
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      2. Miamicool‏ @miamicool Sep 29
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        & later we take it into our vehicle on the way home and bring it in the house at night, recording our conversations. So this is the end of any privacy, i.e. "Social Credits" program for the corporations

        2 replies 8 retweets 190 likes
      3. Euge‏ @Eugehihi Sep 29
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        Replying to @miamicool @TheEconomist

        Authoritarianism is only getting worse as tech advances

        1 reply 6 retweets 142 likes
      4. Lukas Simonis‏ @lsimonis Sep 30
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        Replying to @Eugehihi @miamicool @TheEconomist

        only if we let it. technology doesn't have to be abused.

        1 reply 3 retweets 35 likes
      5. Apollo Kersey‏ @ShottheGiggler Oct 1
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        Replying to @lsimonis @Eugehihi and

        This is abuse.

        1 reply 0 retweets 14 likes
      6. Lukas Simonis‏ @lsimonis Oct 1
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        Replying to @ShottheGiggler @Eugehihi and

        yep

        0 replies 1 retweet 1 like
      7. End of conversation
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      2.  💧Suziekue‏ @bantambaby Sep 29
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        Replying to @TheEconomist

        Humanyze? Is that double speak? De-humanyze more likely.

        1 reply 5 retweets 290 likes
      3. Optimistic_Engineer‏ @ShahidSiddhu Sep 30
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        Replying to @bantambaby @TheEconomist

        @AlmuRumeu "Smiling Buddha" was the code name of India's first nuclear bomb test in 1974.

        0 replies 3 retweets 123 likes
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      2. David P‏ @Pewnack Sep 29
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        David P Retweeted The Wall Street Journal

        Sounds like China's pervasive surveillance. This is going to do long term harm to people's mental and physical health. Being under surveillance is damaging to the psyche.https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1177357178975457285?s=20 …

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        The Wall Street JournalVerified account @WSJ
        Some classrooms in China are equipped with AI cameras and brain-wave trackers. While many parents and teachers see them as tools to improve grades, they’ve become some children’s worst nightmare. #WSJWhatsNow pic.twitter.com/q1wyQcWdZw
        9 replies 41 retweets 217 likes
      3. Samson Chung‏ @samson_chung Sep 30
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        You need to see some of the scary things @Blackboard came up with a few years ago. I recall the inclusion of transact and learn.... basically ‘analytics’ to ‘assist’ the ‘institutions’ on forecasting who in a class ‘are at risk’....

        1 reply 0 retweets 28 likes
      4. shostple colupis‏ @ShostDergon Oct 1
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        Replying to @samson_chung @Pewnack and

        What sort of query could I look for in Google to learn more? Wasn't aware Blackboard did any product development similar to this

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      5. Samson Chung‏ @samson_chung Oct 1
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        Replying to @ShostDergon @Pewnack and

        Look for their campus solutions. It was a great idea.... until they said we can track students from their dorm all the way to classroom and predict their grades. It was scary....

        0 replies 1 retweet 11 likes
      6. End of conversation
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      2. Robert Duigan‏ @DuiganRobert Sep 29
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        If I was in a job interview, and the company told me they used them, I'd walk out and take one somewhere else.

        2 replies 5 retweets 192 likes
      3. Tansy Kelly Robson‏ @Artemisapphire Sep 29
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        Replying to @DuiganRobert @TheEconomist

        I'd take on the job and then given my presentations using mime and interpretative dance. You don't need to fight the machine, just completely confuse it. Like watching Fury followed by My Little Pony on Netflix: its algorithm implodes.

        2 replies 3 retweets 90 likes
      4. Olga Nagtegaal  🧷‏ @olganagtegaal Sep 30
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        Replying to @Artemisapphire @DuiganRobert @TheEconomist

        That’s what my youngest son and I are doing with Netflix: How to train your dragon next to Mindhunter and so on

        2 replies 0 retweets 15 likes
      5. ZANE SMITH‏ @zanesmith2000 Sep 30
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        Replying to @olganagtegaal @Artemisapphire and

        He will love Mindhunter. Plenty of ideas

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      6. Olga Nagtegaal  🧷‏ @olganagtegaal Sep 30
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        Replying to @zanesmith2000 @Artemisapphire and

        😂 not quite yet, he’s 11

        1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
      7. Tansy Kelly Robson‏ @Artemisapphire Sep 30
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        He's 11 and watching Mindhunter while you watch How To Train Your Dragon????

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      8. Olga Nagtegaal  🧷‏ @olganagtegaal Sep 30
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        Replying to @Artemisapphire @zanesmith2000 and

        Yeah, I love Ninjago too 😂, and after that he can watch Downton Abbey

        1 reply 0 retweets 13 likes
      9. ZANE SMITH‏ @zanesmith2000 Sep 30
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        Replying to @olganagtegaal @Artemisapphire and

        Woah! Wait a minute Downtown Abbey may be a bit too strong for him.

        2 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
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      2. Mikel Miller‏ @mikelm06c Sep 29
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        Why do the bosses think they need that? Are they so inempt they cannot figure out productivity, so they monitor useless stuff instead? Idiots maybe all their employees will quit or go on strike?

        3 replies 6 retweets 119 likes
      3. Jon W‏ @2plus2equals7 Sep 30
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        Replying to @mikelm06c @TheEconomist

        It's so they can go sneak off to play golf (and/or harrass the lapdancers at the local strip joint) instead of supervising their employees

        0 replies 3 retweets 29 likes
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