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2023-02-04 Science & Technology
Davos Globalists Hype Companies Spying on Workers' Brain Waves
[Breitbart] At the World Economic Forum, the annual gathering of globalist elites in Davos, Switzerland, a presentation hyped brain wave monitoring technology to allow employers to detect how hard their employees are working, whether they get distracted, and even if they have "amorous feelings" for coworkers.

"You can not only tell whether a person is paying attention or their mind is wandering, but you can discriminate between the kinds of things they are paying attention to," gushed the presenter. "Whether they’re doing something like central tasks, like programming, peripheral tasks like writing documentation, or unrelated tasks like surfing social media or online browsing.

"When you combine brain-wave activity together with other forms of software and surveillance technology, the power becomes quite precise."
At the Davos event titled "Are you ready for brain transparency?" The WEF speaker explained how brain-wave data collected by your ear pods will be used by your boss to make you "more productive" and help government authorities "fight crime" (link embedded) h/t @peopleconspire pic.twitter.com/7eJkjY8fBQ

— Jeremy Loffredo (@loffredojeremy) January 29, 2023

A short video imagined a workplace of the future, in which an employee worries about her employer detecting "amorous feelings" for a coworker by reading her brain-wave data, but is pleasantly surprised when she gets a performance bonus for good "brain metrics" showing her productivity.

In the next scene, the government subpoenas employees’ brainwave data to find co-conspirators in a wire fraud scheme in the office.

"You discover they are looking for synchronized brain activity between your coworker and the people he has been working with. While you know you’re innocent of any crime, you’ve been secretly working with him on a new start-up venture. Shaking, you remove your earbuds."
Posted by Besoeker 2023-02-04 01:01|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 How worker surveillance is backfiring on employers
Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-04 07:27||   2023-02-04 07:27|| Front Page Top

#2 From this year's WEF.
Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-04 08:45||   2023-02-04 08:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Isn't this what all the embassy employees in Havana are supposedly suffering from?
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-04 09:15||   2023-02-04 09:15|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ We cannot go there on the Burg UNCLAS side Merc. This is your last warning.

(Apologies, a weak attempt at humor. Guinea Pig added)
Posted by Besoeker 2023-02-04 09:18||   2023-02-04 09:18|| Front Page Top

#5 I made an observation, not a suggestion. If it was perceived as the latter, well, not my intention at all.

Honestly, my first thought as well. But they were well compensated, and nothing about the "Havana Syndrome" is found in the media or news today.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-04 09:23||   2023-02-04 09:23|| Front Page Top

#6 To be used for prosecution of thought crimes…
Posted by Glenmore  2023-02-04 10:21||   2023-02-04 10:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Boredom and monotony at the US Embassy Havana.

Say Clarence, would you be interested in participating in a classified off-shore 'job site' DARPA experiment? A non-disclosure statement will obviously be required. A generous financial stipend is also anticipated. Get back to me sometime next week please.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-02-04 10:30||   2023-02-04 10:30|| Front Page Top

#8 And here I thought that purposeful lowering of sperm counts and large scale VIP conferences being psychologically manipulated was the plot of Celtic Empire.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-02-04 11:53||   2023-02-04 11:53|| Front Page Top

#9 It is useless technology. You could discipline or fire a worker based on brain waves. Try overcoming that on your Indeed comments. Might be useful to determine when Jim might need a cup of coffee or when it would be good to keep all women away from Dave. Not stuff that will justify the purchase.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-02-04 11:57||   2023-02-04 11:57|| Front Page Top

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