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richie
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27 Mar 2008, 5:58 pm

More Employers Scanning Workers' Hands, full story here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/ ... tpop_story


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27 Mar 2008, 6:19 pm

We've been using one of these at my job for around two years now I think.


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27 Mar 2008, 6:21 pm

On one hand, I can see their point about cutting down on fraud, such as employees falsifying actual hours worked. But on the other hand, it is downright creepy. What next? Eyeball scanning?


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