In Japan, “Big Brother” has been replaced by big corporations. In the land of the rising sun, powerful corporations like Toyota, Honda, Sony, and Nintendo command enormous power and control over their employees. Companies in many cases go so far as to provide arranged marriages for single workers and housing for employees. The price of such personal attention, however, is a level of scrutiny that most people here in the U.S. would find unsettling.
Japanese phone giant KDDI has just given employers a new means to scrutinize their employees, unveiling a new smartphone platform that allows companies to monitor cell phones’ accelerometers and track what their employees are doing.
Each phone has an optional Wakizashi blade so the owner can commit Seppuku.
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