Microsoft takes spying to a new level

still MORE we aren't seeing in our domestic news media...

from the uk timesonline...

Microsoft submitted a patent application in the US for a “unique monitoring system” that could link workers to their computers. Wireless sensors could read “heart rate, galvanic skin response, EMG, brain signals, respiration rate, body temperature, movement facial movements, facial expressions and blood pressure”, the application states.

The system could also “automatically detect frustration or stress in the user” and “offer and provide assistance accordingly”. Physical changes to an employee would be matched to an individual psychological profile based on a worker’s weight, age and health. If the system picked up an increase in heart rate or facial expressions suggestive of stress or frustration, it would tell management that he needed help.

i'm sure the objective is to insure that there isn't a square inch on the face of the earth where we AREN'T under surveillance... if such a system is available for use on computer work stations in our places of employment, you can pretty well figure it's ALREADY in use covertly, and probably has been for some time now...

(thanks to kevin at cryptogon...)

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