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Via Ars Technica:
A Central California woman claims she was fired after uninstalling an app that her employer required her to run constantly on her company issued iPhone—an app that tracked her every move 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Plaintiff Myrna Arias, a former Bakersfield sales executive for money transfer service Intermex, claims in a state court lawsuit that her boss, John Stubits, fired her shortly after she uninstalled the job-management Xora app that she and her colleagues were required to use. According to her suit (PDF) in Kern County Superior Court:
After researching the app and speaking with a trainer from Xora, Plaintiff and her co-workers asked whether Intermex would be monitoring their movements while off duty. Stubits admitted that employees would be monitored while off duty and bragged that he knew how fast she was driving at specific moments ever since she installed the app on her phone. Plaintiff expressed that she had no problem with the app's GPS function during work hours, but she objected to the monitoring of her location during non-work hours and complained to Stubits that this was an invasion of her privacy. She likened the app to a prisoner's ankle bracelet and informed Stubits that his actions were illegal. Stubits replied that she should tolerate the illegal intrusion...
Intermex did not immediately respond for comment. The suit, which claims invasion of privacy, retaliation, unfair business practices, and other allegations, seeks damages in excess of $500,000 and asserts she was monitored on the weekends when she was not working.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 13 2015, @06:48AM
They now put gps tracking in pill bottles specifically to catch thieves. My local pharm removes the gps tracker before handing over a perscription.
Locally they have caught more than 20 thieves this way. They just don't advertise it. Apparently the thieves are quite surprised when the cops turn up with a warrant, herd them out, toss the place and find their hidden stash.
Wash rinse repeat until society has found all of the active pharmacy thieves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 13 2015, @07:47AM
Or (more likely) until all of the active pharmacy thieves learned to remove the GPS before taking the bottle with them.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by lentilla on Wednesday May 13 2015, @09:36AM
Hah, so the "war on drugs" can actually be of some use! Somebody steals a bunch of pills and the cops turn up and arrest them.
The same thief steals your $700 phone, so you visit the local cop shop and show them on a map where the bad guy is right now. The cop looks at you quizzically and says "yeah, and? What do you expect me to do?"
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 13 2015, @10:09AM
Just say that you've got the impression that the thieve seemed to have withdrawal symptoms, and is likely going to exchange the phone for some drugs. ;-)
(Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Thursday May 14 2015, @12:26AM
you didn't do the complete thing.
you gotta tell them that there's an iphone inside a box of donuts. then give them the location info.
you skipped a step, that's why you failed.
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."