Monitoring People Is Surveillance
Attributing measurement to named individuals is workplace surveillance, with obligations attached. What to settle before deployment rather than after.
Analysis
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Rate Pressure and Injury
Automated rate targets change how people work, and the changes increase injury risk. The mechanism, and what a defensible standard requires.
Analysis
Consulting Before Deploying
A requirement in many jurisdictions and the practice that most improves the design. What to consult on, and what to do with the answers.
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Aggregate by Default
Almost every operational question is answerable without naming anyone. The techniques, and the re-identification traps that undo them.
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When Individual Data Is Justified
Four cases where attribution is legitimate, the controls each requires, and the drift that turns a justified system into surveillance.
Reference
The Cost in Cooperation
Monitoring perceived as adversarial degrades the data it collects. The mechanism, and what a deployment looks like that avoids it.
Analysis
What Not to Measure
Measures that are technically possible, operationally useless and reliably damaging. A short list to rule out at design time.
Reference
Giving People Their Own Data
Access to one's own measurements is a right in many jurisdictions and, deployed well, converts a surveillance system into a tool people use.
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