A security ship’s company is offering businesses a very unequaled surveillance inspection and repair : the voice of God . Well , not really . Actually , it ’s just some contractor from India but the net effect — a booming , omniscient in - store narrator — is the same .
subsist Eye Surveillance , which is found in Seattle , sells its certificate systems to major chains like Shell and 7 - Eleven , including a moderately unique feature . As Motherboard of late point out , Live Eye ’s team lease remote contractors , called “ virtual supervisors , ” who not only monitor everything going on in the fund through security television camera but can also phone in to its speaker system system and thus interact with people in the store . It ’s just another object lesson of thegrowing trendof employee monitoring products that have exploded since Covid took millions of workers remote — albeit a pretty laughable one .
In some cases , Live Eye ’s creature is used for security purposes . One especial deterrent example is displayed in surveillance footage from a recent try robbery . Two masked Isle of Man enter a 7 - Eleven , one toting what looks like an violation rifle . As they undertake to rob the cashier , the Live Eye wheeler dealer ’s unembodied voice kicks into appurtenance : “ This is unrecorded Eye security . This is to inform you that you are under CCTV surveillance and we have call 911 . ” The bandits subsequently scurry out the door , bewildered by the apparent convenience store deity that has chastised them .
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While the Live Eye voice gizmo seems to have worked in that scenario , critic have pointed out that not only is it not really that useful , it really seems fairly grievous .
“ That ’s how someone is proceed to get killed , ” an anonymous study consultant for 7 - Eleventold Motherboard , explain why he disapprove of the production . “ You do n’t startle someone with an assault rifle . That violate 7 - Eleven insurance policy . There ’s a cause why the soundless alarm is silent . ”
On top of this , what Live Eye ’s Cartesian product is mostly designed to do is surveil employee and regulate how they function . In anothervideo postedon the party ’s internet site , it picture “ the Voice ” interrogate a convenience store employee whose friend has stop by to visit . Basically , the tool can be used as an ever - present manager , tasked with literally appear over the articulatio humeri of employees at all times .
In improver to how creepy and annoying this is , it ’s basically trespassing in a way that inactive surveillance organisation are not . It ’s like something from Futurama — dystopian and atrocious but also absurd and cartoonish . Even though the culture of surveillance in America and around the world is already at peak capacity , companies and the government seem to be taking it as a challenge to get more and more creative with how they can invade your seclusion .
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