Some of the privacy shutters still allow infared light through so you can still be seen for face unlocks. "In theory" only face id can access this camera.
Face ID? Who is out here giving their biometrics to the company they work for? If you want me to use a piece of equipment that shit better have a password cause I'm not scanning my face, finger or anything else.
I do crime in my off time. I can't have that data in some database that might be accessible for law enforcement. If they are going to catch me they need to do it old school. I'm not getting busted because some AI bullshit went "We have a match in a employee database"...
A lot of people where i work for some reason seem to be happy giving all of their bio details to anyone who asks. I agree completely. Interestingly there is a push currently for something called passkeys as the new MFA method and a phasing out mfa texts, calls and e-mails. Where i work and i suspect anywhere else that rely on Microsoft or passkeys, you will need to use an authenticator app and/or biometric info to access your work.
Just a reminder that the police can force you to put your finger/face/eyeball up to a reader to unlock your phone/tablet/laptop at the border. But they CANNOT force you to give a password (5th amendment violation.) They can however confiscate your electronic stuff, and make life a pain.
I'm an admin/triage for corporate security systems and have to use 2fa apps all day long. If nothing else I hate bad actors just for making my job continually more inconvenient.
The push for phasing out mfa calls, texts, and emails is because microsoft removing that feature next year. (And as an MFA method it isn't very secure.)
My workplace has an app that you use to access your schedule or PTO or anything like that when not physically on site. They just last night forced everyone to wants to use the app to set up a pass key. I hate it so much that I'm seriously considering just uninstalling the shit and only adjusting punches or putting in time while on site from now on. đ
Well if you were born in the US and in certain jurisdictions your fingerprint was automatically taken upon being received and if law enforcement has enough probable cause to search your name then they will have enough to look up your fingerprint
Ugh... My job uses ADP for most employee related stuff, including the punch clocks. Overall it wasn't too bad. It did require a fingerprint scan, but this was before the AI stuff, and I already gave my employer my fingerprint for the hiring process. About 6 months ago one of the punch clocks broke, and ADP sent their new model with AI face scan. They literally don't offer a punch clock without it anymore and switching away from ADP is beyond consideration. ADP handles so much HR stuff that changing away would be a major undertaking. Most of the employees were pissed, but nobody left over it. Considering the field were in, the govt already has a full scan of our assholes.
Like we have any say in anything related to money. I had Dells pushed on me when we had used lenovo for years. I ORDERED lenovo. When the pallets came they were full of dell computers. No docks or brand specific peripherals for the laptops, just computers. Maddening. We had to buy docks intermittently and individually/in small batches. We did napkin math at dinner one night at one of the plants and we could not come up with a scenario that did not cost us a lot of money. We decided the suite that did that to us pointed to the savings on the spreadsheet and got praised.
More about the sentiment of "oh screw it, its just a work computer." So many multi-thousand dollar systems I've gotten back with broken keys, broken screens, water damage, and absolutely disgusting. I've gotten some laptops back where I legit needed to wear gloves and a mask to wipe it down and dust it. God help you when you use compressed air on the keyboards of those systems. The chunks of food, skin, pet hair, etc is just vile.
There's two kinds of end users... the ones who treat the gear as if it was their own (or better) and actually look after it properly, and the ones who give no fucks cause it's a work machine and they treat it like garbage.
Someone who goes "it's work computer I don't care" because they left sticky residue someone else is going to have to scrub off is absolutely not taking care of their gear.
This comes down to an invasion of privacy issue from a company overstepping their bounds. If an employee wants to cover up a camera, which in turn leaves a sticky residue on the computer, I'm 100% all for it. Speaks volumes about yourself if you're complaining about it.
You put a small piece of sticky note over the lens, then a piece of electrical tape over the sticky note. No residue on the lens. I am staring at that "system" right now. Easy to remove and replace.
Cut 2 pieces of electrical tape. 1 x 1" and 1 x 2". Stick the 1" to the 2" sticky side to sticky side, centered. So you now have a single 2" piece of electrical tape where only the first .5" and the last .5" are sticky. You can now cover your camera without getting sticky gunk on the lens. If 2" isn't enough, adjust as necessary.
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u/MaleficentMountain3 6d ago
It's leaves a sticky residue tho