APP Positioning Punch Card Employees Fear Disclosure Of Privacy

It has been accurately grasped by the boss of the computer screen before the field has been visited and how long it has been away. Recently, some enterprises in Beijing began to use this positioning punch card APP.

Reporter experience has found that this software can not only display the trajectory of the person who has been positioned for one day, but also accurately locate the road name and number.

"Don't mention it. Does this software encroach on me?

Some employees are disgusted with this kind of management.

Network security experts say the software does have the risk of divulging privacy.

The lawyer said that such a management method is not proper, the enterprise should first get the employee's consent before the installation, and the employee has the right to turn off the location function during the non working hours.

Cui Qing (a pseudonym) is a salesman in an instrument trading company. He goes out to meet customers every day.

Recently, the boss of the unit has asked every employee to install a APP called "beating the world".

At first everyone thought it was just a check-in punch card, but when the meeting was held, the boss said, "all of you are in my eyes every day."

This makes most employees feel very uncomfortable.

"First of all, it is a sense of distrust of employees by leadership," said Cui Ching.

After work, always feel that there are two eyes staring at themselves, particularly uncomfortable.

Other employees said they feared that their tracks would be uploaded to the Internet and reveal their privacy.

In response, the head of the company said that the salesperson had used his working hours to do private business before installing the software for management purposes, but the company would not disclose the information.

Reporters found that this "APP" was introduced in the app store as a mobile assistant for field staff, which enables the field staff to punch cards and to report the work through this software. For its positioning function, the introduction only shows that the location of the field staff can be real-time mastered and the customers around can be found accurately.

Reporters call the software research and development company, learned that the use of this software is generally applied to the company as a unit, the first month trial, to second months to start charging, about 50 yuan per person per month, and the positioning of employees and the trajectory of the day, you need to open the "open world" workbench on the computer to see.

Login to the official website of the R & D company and enter the "hit the world" interface. It shows a map. The name of the employee can be seen on the left side of the map. The user can click on the employee's name to inquire about the real-time location of the employee.

If a monitored employee stays in a location for more than 10 minutes, the location will be recorded.

The reporter called the "development of the world" software development company, its staff told reporters that this software is mainly the enterprise management software, which does have a function of recording behavior track.

The location of the trajectory is open to the user on the cell phone. "We have a port, and the employees at the end of the cell phone are free to choose whether to allow them to be positioned."

The staff member said.

But reporters found that employees who used the software generally were forced to open their location at work time.

Reporters learned that this software can change the positioning parameters, positioning parameters refer to the daily positioning time and the choice of positioning in the week.

According to its staff, the setting time of the system can be set as early as 7 in the morning and at 8 in the evening, and the boss can choose any location from Monday to Sunday by setting up.

Leopard Senior Network Security Engineer Li Tiejun said such positioning attendance

It originated from the type of check-in and punch card type APP, plus the location function of mobile phones nowadays, so the function of this APP is more and more developed.

Lee engineer believes that such APP does not exclude the risk of being cracked and divulging privacy, because no software is absolutely safe.

If development companies and enterprises are not well regulated, such software may also be used by lawless elements for tracking or even illegal activities.

Staff use punch card APP, first need to see the introduction of software, some similar software for the introduction of positioning function is not detailed, employees do not pay attention to such functions, unknowingly, their own whereabouts leaked.

In the application store, there are many localization software, such as self defense software, old age children's missing software, etc.

In general, mobile phone locators are used by acquaintances, most of them can see each other's location, while the "beating the world" software is unilateral positioning, that is, only one side of the enterprise knows the location information of the employee.

Yue Shan Shan, a lawyer at Yuecheng law firm in Beijing, said that if the company only located employees in the working hours and obtained the track of action, it was based on labor relations, and the company had the right to know some trends of the field staff.

Conversely, if the location function is still open during the non working hours, the information obtained must be the employee's privacy, but if the person in charge of the company does not disclose the information, it does not constitute an invasion of privacy.

"Only when we have a certain impact on the parties can we say that they constitute infringement."

At the same time, Yue lawyer said, for installing such software, first of all, the employer should make the employees know and agree, and the employees have the right to close their location function during the non working hours.