Maybe there is some truth to this post but there are so many fake stories and made up iMessage conversations posted there that it's hard to take anything seriously anymore.
If you Google "JPM WADU" you'll find communications to employees about the system: https://www.jpmorganchase.com/content/dam/jpmc/jpmorgan-chas...
Job listings: https://www.disabledperson.com/jobs/33566500-wadu-tech-and-t...
Even patent filings: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/patents/patent/US-7668849-...
This isn't "made up" and it's easily verified with a couple seconds of google.
https://www.businessinsider.com/jpmorgan-chase-is-tracking-z...
Point about the *made up* stuff is that the subreddit in question has a lot of questionable content and straight up lies. Whole point of the subreddit in question is to pain capitalism and every employer as the devil just reaping money out of mistreating their employees.
If it's for compliance, where are the written rules saying they have to use these invasive technologies?
JPMC has thousands of managers. If all of them have access to the strangest/most invasive aspects of the tool described it wouldn’t be a secret. It would also be a great way to create a toxic culture.
> Heres the tool.
Ok so it is real, but they have nobody actually working on it.
> Heres the employees working on it.
Ok so it is real, and they have a team, but it is illegal.
> Most of it is mandated by the regulators, and they have a pretty big legal team (dont make me post their linkedin profiles to prove that a bank has a legal department).
Ok so it is real, and they have a team, it is legal, but ...
It's mind boggling to me that anyone would try and find a way to make this make sense
She readily confirmed that her JPMC laptop shipped to her via her company's address, and her outside management had informed her to "be careful with it." Her JPMC management told her that she had to put it on a "normal network" after she got a dedicated LTE network for it that was literally only used by that device alone. She was reprimanded for not turning on her webcam during meetings, and JPMC IT emailed her when she physically disconnected the camera on her (outside) management's advice after being (again) reprimanded for working in the nude at her desk in her own home. She said "Sorry the camera just stopped working" and the next day a new machine arrived at her home, the address of which was not given to JPMC at any time.
This is how they treat outside contractors. This outside firm has decided to never work with JPMC again and cut off the contract early.
That’s standard for company laptops. Nobody should be using the company laptop, which contains sensitive company information and access, to play games or whatever. Use it for work, then go use your personal devices for personal activities.
> Her JPMC management told her that she had to put it on a "normal network" after she got a dedicated LTE network for it that was literally only used by that device alone.
Common security requirement. Mobile connections tend to have frequently changing IPs. This creates problems with security software that tries to detect anomalous behavior.
> She was reprimanded for not turning on her webcam during meetings,
Having video on is a meeting requirement at some companies. It’s not unreasonable, even though some people dislike it. Video meetings are supposed to be analogs of meetings, where people talk face to face.
> She said "Sorry the camera just stopped working" and the next day a new machine arrived at her home, the address of which was not given to JPMC at any time.
I think you’re being fed exaggerations, or your friend doesn’t remember giving them her address. There’s no way a company would just guess an employee’s address and ship a $2,000 laptop there, hoping it arrived at the intended recipient.
I don't know about your work, but mine actively encourages us to use our laptops from literally whatever network we want. There's some that only ever tether. What set it off was the fact that the device saw no other neighbors -- they stopped complaining as soon as she put a printer on the same network.
> Having video on is a meeting requirement at some companies.
If that was a requirement, it was inconsistently applied. She was singled out.
> doesn’t remember giving them her address
There's no way they could have known the address she was working at since it wasn't listed anywhere; I id bury the lede here a bit: She was on LTE working from a camper in the middle of a forest. None the less, an in-person courier arrived at the *camp site* she was at the next day with a new laptop.
I wish I was being fed exaggerations, because *that would make more sense*. No, the hanlon's razor here is that they ship all their machines with one of the location tracking systems, in this case probably Absolute (the replacement for Computrace).
This is fanfiction or she told them her address and consented to receive the shipment. Delivery companies do not simply take location coordinates to deliver a laptop for a multitude of reasons, including insurance liability.
This also may run afoul of privacy regulations etc depending on where she lives.
The fuck? Who does this
Some of the items in the original post, like face recognition from internal cameras, are definitely not required. I have no idea whether or not that's actually true though.
But what's in that doc about tracking messaging, phones, building access etc is definitely all happening because they absolutely have to and are regularly audited on it.
Then maybe lets roll it back for everyone cause it's a total disaster
It almost feels like how Councilman Jamm in the TV show Parks and Recreation convinces the crowd of what he wants with some random arbitrary references to real things while mixing it up so much lies.
Isn't that just reddit in general?
But there are good ones too imo that I follow, usually the more on-topic ones like /r/buildapc, /r/datahoarder, /r/networking, main sport sub like /r/soccer or /r/baseball.
I guess my brain felt compelled to remind about the important underlying message of the post, because the comment felt like it was undermining it. The main motivation is probably fear of a shitty dystopian future, because I cannot remember the last time I read any positive news.