Ways Your Boss Spies on You at Work

Your boss is watching. We already know that cameras are everywhere, your Internet history can follow you for life and your boss has too much time on his/her hands. Here's a look at how technology is only going to make things worse for the common cube dweller.

HEATMAPPING
What if your computer monitor was rigged with cameras that tracked the movement of your eyes? Advanced Eye Interpretation technology is here now, and you better pray that your company can't afford to buy it. Currently used as a tool to help optimize Web sites by helping the owner understanding what visitors are looking at, the sophisticated eye-movement tech can easily be adapted by corporations who wish to know what their employees are looking at all day.

Crazyegg.com recently announced that they are offering faux heatmaps and overlays of what people are clicking on within certain Web sites - for FREE. All site owners have to do is post a single line of code onto a page and they will receive statistics of what you are clicking on. What happens when your company employs this technology to force you to use their intranet site. Or worse yet, they set up similar technology on specific programs that you use on a daily basis. Looking away from your computer screen for long periods of time (such as hanging over Jen's cube to flirt) will become a thing of the past.

Also, popular new tools like MyBlogLog.com can easily be used AGAINST the rank and file. What if an employer mandated that all employees create a profile...then they'd know what blogs you visited and when!

Who's at Risk: People working for a small or mid-sized wealthy organization. Also, those who work with a single program on a daily basis.