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Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day

Posted by samzenpus on from the keeping-tabs-on-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Myrna Arias claims she was fired for refusing to run an app that would track her location even when she was off the clock. She is now suing Intermex Wire Transfer LLC in a Kern County Superior Court. Her claim reads in part: "After researching the app and speaking with a trainer from Xora, Plaintiff and her co-workers asked whether Intermex would be monitoring their movements while off duty. Stubits admitted that employees would be monitored while off duty and bragged that he knew how fast she was driving at specific moments ever since she installed the app on her phone. Plaintiff expressed that she had no problem with the app's GPS function during work hours, but she objected to the monitoring of her location during non-work hours and complained to Stubits that this was an invasion of her privacy. She likened the app to a prisoner's ankle bracelet and informed Stubits that his actions were illegal. Stubits replied that she should tolerate the illegal intrusion...."

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  1. Privacy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Privacy. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

    1. Re:Privacy? by viperidaenz · · Score: 4, Funny

      Think. You keep using that word...

    2. Re:Privacy? by binarylarry · · Score: 4, Funny

      I do not mean to pry, but you don't by any chance happen to have six fingers on your right hand?

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    3. Re:Privacy? by penguinoid · · Score: 5, Funny

      In my lifetime the number of incarcerated Americans has risen about 300%.

      I KNEW this was someone's fault!

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    4. Re:Privacy? by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 1, Funny

      True, true. We'd be much better off if we sent them all to camps in Honduras where they could be trained to perform useful labour such as fruit-picking.

      (You were speaking of greedy, corrupt, and self-serving businesspeople, bureaucrats, and politicians, right?)

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  2. Re:It was an app on a WORK-Issued Phone! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Solution. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

  3. Re:GPS tracks nowadays by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    In Portugal, I know, the Personal Data Protection Law strictly forbids it. IMHO, the US could learn a lot from certain European laws.

    U.S. businesses and their PACs don't ... err ... I mean the U.S. Congress and the President, after careful consideration of the public interest, do not agree with your assessment.

  4. Re:It was an app on a WORK-Issued Phone! by The+Rizz · · Score: 5, Funny

    There are certain off-work things that an employer should know about - witness the guy who intentionally flew the airliner into the mountain and killed all on board

    Oh, absolutely. If one of my employees intentionally flies a plane into a mountain, killing himself and everyone on board, I'll be firing him the very next day.

  5. Re:It was an app on a WORK-Issued Phone! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    >I have turned liberal/socialist to fairly conservative over my 15 years on Slashdot.

    Why would you become more ignorant, and less civilized over time? Senility?

  6. Forwarding... by SharpFang · · Score: 3, Funny

    One thing she could have done - turn call forwarding to a private phone on, so that the 24/7 condition is met, and then... sky's the limit.

    Get a friendly taxi driver to take the phone for the night.
    Put it on an RC plane and take it for a trip over the city center.
    Put it in a box and attach with a magnet to your boss' car.
    Borrow it for a friend who does car races (preferably illegal) to take it for a 200MPH ride.
    Root the phone, get a GPS spoofing app and "send it to Antarctica".

    Or just leave it in a desk drawer at work...

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  7. Re:It was an app on a WORK-Issued Phone! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    There are certain off-work things that an employer should know about - witness the guy who intentionally flew the airliner into the mountain and killed all on board

    I'm pretty sure he was on the clock while flying the plane...

  8. Re:first, don't let them put their shit on YOUR ph by barc0001 · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's a great plan. Then she could instead be fired for not taking calls from customers 24/7 on the phone in the tin box instead. Brilliant!