JUST IN: The remaining employees at the General Services Administration are being warned that their work will be heavily monitored, from their swipes into the office to what they type on their computers.
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This is the dark side of artificial intelligence. It would’ve been impossible to do this in any cost-effective way prior to the current generation of chat bots
I mean I get they are saying that part out loud now, but as a person that works and has worked for major corporations, this is nothing new. It's called RBA (Risk Based Analysis) and UEBA (User Entity Based Analysis). Your work owns your laptop and anything you do on it. Standard practice.
You already aren't supposed to be doing personal things and tracked on websites. They have your times you log in, badge in, etc. I've even been told to remove a headphone so my boss could talk to me at random times. Printing is tracked via QR, phones can and have been blocked by carrier (ATT/VZ)...
What more do you think they are going to impose that companies already do? It's just you don't know they do and that's my job is to keep that data integrated. Everything is tracked and monitored at every corp. ATT/VZ killed the competitors signals on site, gaming tracks printing, etc.
Oh yea, don't get me wrong, I just integrate whatever they ask. They want 'x', they get it. Water sensor datacenter "frogs" were one of my favs. I'm not allowed to look at the data collected without cause, which is cool. How they justify to use the data collected on a person, that will be scary.
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60 percent of the GSA....voted for the orange convicted felon racist rapist dipshit.
Find them....ask them why.
Oh....it was his policies.
Which ones....
Immigration...ok... how's that policy going for ya all?????
He literally said he'd be a dictator on day one.
Fcking ignorant magats.
They care, most care; the problem is many were deluded about the strength of laws. In a democracy laws are a “group agreement” to obey law even if no police present. When a criminal gang voted in, breaks group agreement laws, who can enforce Judicial Orders when the lawless party controls justice?
Monitoring their work would only be possible if keyloggers were installed on their systems, which means anything they type can be given to any foreign government or bought by and wealthy person!
The infrastructure is already in place to turn this big brother shit on the general populace. The NSA already scoops up way more than it could ever sift through... but an unscrupulous nazi billionaire could one day seize control of the federal computer systems and implement targeted AI surveillance.
So Trump wants to bring all federal workers back to the office. Even allowing he is planning to fire many of them, the GSA has a tremendous amount of work to do to get office space reorganized for the remaining workforce and to prep for sale all the space Trump thinks he won’t need.
The Doge people have no experience in auditing, and no idea about the workings of the programs they’re slashing.
They don’t know whats wasteful or not.
Trump is turning the federal government into a playpen for amateurs.
Sounds like a fresh start. "The experienced"caused all the debt and wasteful spending. Please list the productivity these slashed programs did and how American tax payers benefited from them.
You just swallow every claim by Doge?
You think these programs were not already scrutinied by auditing bodies?
Doges actions are political, not based on fact.
The truth is hard to digest by those accustomed to being served lies. Everything is political based on the previous administration deliberate incompetence. Enjoy the clean up of a bloated government.🇺🇸
You know what's great right now? The only agencies Trump is cutting right now are the ones that actually help his idiot base and the ones that stop him from doing it.
This is enraging and any one of us who have worked in similar environments know the toll this takes on your heart and soul. It is intended to be torturous and it is. May the monsters responsible for this rot in hell.
No. Because the army just showed him the middle finger yesterday and defied his order on trans soldiers. In writing. His secretary of defense got booed by his own soldiers in Germany. You tell me how you can be a fascist with no army.
The threats are just bullying! I work for an international engineering firm. I have to swipe into the building and log onto a company laptop. I assume my actions are monitored if someone wanted to look for trouble. I never talk politics or talk out of school.
So, I have 3 laptops. One for work and two for my personal use. You don't think those workers have more than a work laptop???? Duhhhh. There'll be no monitoring.
No, thank you for trying a bit harder. You have much needed context to your statement. Working from home changes the dynamics with the only exception being a work laptop lose remote access to the government server or be monitored for each keystroke.
They will just ignore impeachment, in fact they will likely ignore everything except a loaded gun pointed at them by a Marshall, until then who`s going to stop them and how ?
A lot of industries already heavily monitor their employees… Think about your company laptop or cellphone next time you use it. It is creepy but not always illegal. We should talk NPR…
I have known people who have gotten fired because they accessed porn in their work computers...and this was years ago. Another friend wasn't fired but she was reprimanded for shopping online too many hours of the work day. Again, years ago.
IT capabilities have come a long way. Employers and many facilities now have the ability to monitor far more than your work computer or phone. Personal devices are also subject to monitoring. Although it isn’t legal to discriminate in these situations it still takes place.
Reposting ALL of this so I can come back one day and show my daughter how ridiculous this has gotten & how quickly… this way she will understand what her mama was busy fighting for & for her to remember how fragile democracy is.
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This implies they have added software of unknown origin to the government computers. Who knows what this new software does, where it is, is it safe, how does it monitor and what data does it use. How hard will it be to remove the illicit software?
Hello, this is just a question from a Scottish socialist.
TwatRump has his name over everything. That’s his gig, his craving. Would it be a powerful statement to remove his name in all media mentions. Henceforth refer to him by his title only, POTUS or The President of the United States.
So, being an employee means you're a SLAVE to the whims of the fascist Nazi bastards. Yet another Nazi tactic to push people out. Big Brother sitting in your lap.
Has anyone compiled a list of the Billionaires here and abroad (there are about 3000 of them - the 3K) & their addresses, emails, phones, etc. & most important how much they donated to #MAGA? It's time we took the flood the zone home to the secret Red Hats. Non-violent disruption begins at home.
GSA - another fed agency Musk received 3.75Billion in tax payer funded grants, contracts, subsidies for space X ( see why he wants go mars now too) last year alone. Don’t take it from me do your own fed gov spending verification: https://usaspending.gov
Also why Musk (and rest of tech broligarcs) want to start AI corporations to even further fleece and scam the US taxpayers out of additional Trillions of dollars. DOD doesn’t ever pass its Audit and I’m sure the broligarchs would all love a piece of that blacked out DARPA tax payer funded contracts
To be fair, they have *always* been monitored.
The real change that is happening is that their infractions, previously of no real consequence, will now be used against them in even the most trivial of cases.
"I see that you typed the pronoun SHE in your last weekly status report. YOU'RE FIRED!"
I think they would go after SHE and replace it with THEY.
Then they can pretend and make it look like the entire agency is male.
They all work on site.
They all showed up to work on time.
They all participated in our 'voluntary' and 'anonymous' online questionaire.
Some of them were then terminated.
Simple, if they want messages to get out use pen and paper and mail. Musk’s mob can’t fight that. Flyers in all the cities and towns because again Musk can’t control it. Flood people with old fashioned paper posters. Draw cash from the bank and pay for goods with cash. It worked for 100’s of years.
It sounds like you're really concerned about the impact of such significant changes. It's important to discuss these issues and explore ways to address potential challenges. What are some ideas you have for improving government services and efficiency?
People can educate themselves (especially these days). There are many ways. The schools and colleges have agendas. Think for yourself, question authority.
And still Americans do nothing. Blah blah blah you’re calling your reps. Blah blah blah there were tiny little protest at state capitols. Wake up and do something. YOU OWE IT TO THE REST OF THE WORLD
Yep. Corporations don’t like government because they do pesky things like regulate destruction of the US government as a functioning. Body is definitely Musk’s real goal.
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Find them....ask them why.
Oh....it was his policies.
Which ones....
Immigration...ok... how's that policy going for ya all?????
He literally said he'd be a dictator on day one.
Fcking ignorant magats.
We warned tRump was going to be a dictator and a fascist; now here's MORE proof.
tRump is destroying out Nation!
Resist!
Un-United States of AmeriKKKa
These people are fascists. No more questions, your honor.
GSA folks. Just do your work. We appreciate you!
They don’t know whats wasteful or not.
Trump is turning the federal government into a playpen for amateurs.
You think these programs were not already scrutinied by auditing bodies?
Doges actions are political, not based on fact.
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This pains me. I have a great relationship with them, full of trust and respect. But I am afraid. For the first time in 15 years, my faith is gone.
And the beatings will continue until moral improves.
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TwatRump has his name over everything. That’s his gig, his craving. Would it be a powerful statement to remove his name in all media mentions. Henceforth refer to him by his title only, POTUS or The President of the United States.
Carl Sagan pointed out that Jane Goodall studies chimps in the wild because like humans in jail, being caged never brings out the best in us.
Removing latitude for human vulnerability and connection allows CEOs to see us as cogs.
The real change that is happening is that their infractions, previously of no real consequence, will now be used against them in even the most trivial of cases.
"I see that you typed the pronoun SHE in your last weekly status report. YOU'RE FIRED!"
Then they can pretend and make it look like the entire agency is male.
They all work on site.
They all showed up to work on time.
They all participated in our 'voluntary' and 'anonymous' online questionaire.
Some of them were then terminated.
Horrible