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CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Things Your Boss Doesn’t Want You to Know
If yyou’ve read this far, yyou’re obviouslyy concerned about privacyy,
but for most of us it’s not a matter of hiding from the federal government.
Rather, we know that when we’re at work, our employyers can see exactlyy
what we’re doing online over their networks (e.g., shopping, playying games,
goofing off). A lot of us just want to cover our asses!
And that’s getting harder to do, thanks in part to the cell phones we
carryy. Whenever Jane Rodgers, finance manager of a Chicago landscaping
companyy, wants to know whether her employyees in the field are where theyy
should be, she pulls up their exact locations on her laptop. Like manyy
managers and companyy owners, she is turning to tracking software on
corporate-owned, personallyy enabled (COPE) smartphones and service
trucks with GPS devices to surveil her employyees. One dayy a customer
asked Jane whether one of her landscapers had been out to perform a
service. After a few keyystrokes, Jane verified that between 10:00 a.m. and
10:30 a.m. one of her employyees had been to the specified place.
The telematics service Rodgers uses provides capabilities beyyond
geolocation. For example, on her nine companyy-owned phones she can also
view photos, text messages, and e-mails sent byy her gardeners. She also has
access to their call logs and website visits. But Rodgers sayys she onlyy uses
the GPS feature. 1
GPS tracking in the service industryy has been available for a long time.