Here's a creepy Microsoft project: "... The system would allow managers to monitor employees' performance by measuring their heart rate, body temperature, movement, facial expression and blood pressure. Unions said they fear that employees could be dismissed on the basis of a computer's *****sment of their physiological state." http://slashdot.org/articles/08/01/16/1427242.shtml ("...He had set his features into the expression of quiet optimism which it was advisable to wear when facing the telescreen...") Here's a less intrusive but still mildly creepy plan for the SF Bay Area subway: "...will allow officers to better zoom in on suspicious people and items..." http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/30/MNEOT2R0D.DTL Here's a funny/sad surveillance-as-art project: http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/11/AR2007051102030.html?nav=rss_technology Not much public comment on the above, but evidently they'll pry Californians' thermostats from their pleasantly warmed or chilled dead hands... http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/16/BARNUGIKF.DTL Rgds/M
