Why biometric CVs will determine future work hiresWearable tech that monitors physical performance is booming. A company might, for example, pull someone from a big sales pitch if the biometric data shows they haven’t slept for the past three nights. The law around the collection of biometric data in the workplace is still emerging, and this technology could certainly raise privacy, data storage and anti-discrimination concerns. For an athlete, there are clear and compelling reasons to collect physical performance data that would otherwise be considered intrusive. Right now, it’s most often a fingerprint or retinal scan to clock on rather than monitoring physical performance at work.

Source: Standard Digital November 12, 2019 11:04 UTC