"US: New Scanners for Tracking City Workers" by Sewell Chan

[bobthedrummer]

originally published 1-23-2007 in the New York Times reposted from CorpWatch.org under fair use citation.

This article details the bio-metric monitoring program of City of New York employees by our one and only SAIC, which has a $181.1mn contract through 2009 through the CityWorks plan.

SAIC, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls-which has quite a history itself including seven contracts that were "awarded" in Iraq and a rich history of engineering such previously tinfoil schemes as psychic spying and a whole lot more of nefarious shadow government "work" for decades.

We can digress after this hyperlink to Sewell Chan's article has been read.

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14318

[Starfury]

1. Funny, no mention of tracking management - I'm sure it's just an oversight

The use of new tracking technologies has been contentious at more and more workplaces. At Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, nurses carry radio-frequency identification tags that allow their movements to be tracked, a practice the nurses protested in an arbitration proceeding. A lawyer for the hospital, David N. Hoffman, said the system was used to ensure the quality of patient care and not to keep track of nurses who are on breaks.

Wow, my BS meter just went off the scale!

[Igel]

3. They mention it.

It mostly doesn't cover management.

[Igel]

2. SAIC does all kinds of stuff.

They have an office across the street from NASA in Clear Lake, TX. They do space suit systems and other space-related work at that office, I believe. They have scores of offices all over the place, doing all kind of projects. Sometimes cool stuff, sometimes boring stuff, sometimes whacky stuff ... if there's a contract being offered, and they think they can do a good job, they simply bid on it.

I knew one of its founders. There are very few people I consciously try to emulate; he's one.

BTW, "fair use" seldom extends to republishing the entirety of anything copyrighted.

[bobthedrummer]

4. Do a search with keywords SAIC criminal and ethics violations

look up the contracts awarded and the government agencies and organizations left cold by SAIC by non-performance or just grabbing the money paying off the corruption networks within some very sensitive communities including: branches of our military, NSA, FBI...

Then let's talk about some of the people from extreme RW and neo-conservative backgrounds that have historically dominated this corporation's management. SAIC was founded by people that blamed a lot of the failures in Vietnam policy on all the wrong factors-and went ahead with an ideology that embraced what was called in 1969 the electronic battlefield and evolved into a form of privatized militaristic fascism to the detriment of US and the world.

Many could post their research on the criminal and ethics violations of SAIC-this is a thread to do that--or post about the political affiliations and ideologies historically manifested by the management of SAIC.

What's preventing you, ladies and gentlemen, DUers, and visitors from adding your contributions to this thread?