The Mean Old Microsoft Eavesdropping Machine

Other day I wrote about the society-changing impact of the Mean Old Lady Eavesdropping Device (LINK FIXED) becoming cheap and widely available to snoops, biddies, and gossips everywhere. (And reporters, too, which is not always a bad thing.)

Bill Gates has just gone them one better for Orwellian spookiness, this time in the workplace. It's a creepy little Panopticon we're living in these days. And hey, if we reject this idea, China will still buy it.

JYB Tailwag to the invaluable Geoff, who's pretty disgusted as well:

Just what we need - making your physiology part of the growing web of data that describes your life. Thanks, Microsoft!