OldLady
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Jesus, that's one Nazi employer--or healthcare plan, I'm not sure which. My previous employer made me sign an agreement several times that I could be drug tested, but none of us ever were. I hope you find a saner employer--anyone that would do that is too much NY Management style for my taste.I was in a crabby mood the other day and went into RiteAid where the checkout kid wanted my Rite Rewards card and was quite pushy about it. I wasn't in the mood and (as kindly as I could, seeing as he doesn't run Rite Aid) informed him that his employers didn't have any right to insist on knowing what kind of makeup and catfood I buy, and it is not Sam's Club, so I don't need the card to buy stuff there.No one should submit to corporate state mass surveillance. "Terorist" is the new "communist". This power structure knows full well it has lost all semblance of legitimacy, that's why police departments have been militarized and the mass surveillance state has been expanded to monitor citizens. As more and more wealth is extracted from society and redistributed to the top in a post indistrial society without enough livable wage work to go around, the power structure knows resistance and dissent will rise.Are you a terrorist? If not, what are you afraid FB will identify you with?This is why I'm hardly on Facebook and my smarter friends avoid it all together
"The long term promise of AI is that in addition to identifying risks more quickly and accurately than would have already happened, it may also identify risks that nobody would have flagged at all including terrorists planning attacks using private channels, people bullying someone too afraid to report it themselves, and other issues both local and global,” -- Zuckerberg of Facebook's 1984 Surveillance -- to catch "terrorists"
Mark Zuckerberg hints at SECRET plans to use artificial intelligence to censor and spy on users
It's a private company, no one forces you to use it, use it with the understanding they will monitor all of your conversations
I realize this shit goes on, but I really don't think things are anywhere near as dark as you think. I hope.
We should all be doing what you did. My employer vomited up a new "choice" for our healthcare this year. There is only one "choice" to "choose" from. Premiums went up again as they always do. Deductibles went up 3 fold. For the usual "discount" for being a nonsmoker this year however, the company will line up employees this summer to draw blood; ostensibly to check to see if employees are cheating in regard to being a nonsmoker.
I will no longer be here by that time, no employer is entitled to a blood sample.
Your personal information has been commoditized and is for sale, at the very least.