Speciaal voor dit bericht hebben we de rubriek “Creep van de dag” in het leven geroepen. Een bedrijf dat doodleuk beweert dat het zogenaamde “insider threats” binnen een bedrijf kan voorkomen. Het enige dat het daarvoor nodig heeft, is permanente toegang tot alle berichten die de werknemers verzenden. Die vervolgens psychologisch geanalyseerd worden. We zeiden het al: creeps.
One company says it can spot ‘insider threats’ before they happen — by reading all your workers’ email.” Working with a former CIA consultant, Stroz Friedberg developed a software that “combs through an organization’s emails and text messages — millions a day, the company says — looking for high usage of words and phrases that language psychologists associate with certain mental states and personality profiles …
Many companies already have the ability to run keyword searches of employees’ emails, looking for worrisome words and phrases like ‘embezzle’ and ‘I loathe this job’. But the Stroz Friedberg software, called Scout, aspires to go a giant step further, detecting indirectly, through unconscious syntactic and grammatical clues, workers’ anger, financial or personal stress, and other tip-offs that an employee might be about to lose it… It uses an algorithm based on linguistic tells found to connote feelings of victimization, anger, and blame.
— bron: Spy Tech That Reads Your Mind (Fortune, 1/6/2016)