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\n\n", "date_published": "2026-08-16T09:15:49.000-04:00" }, { "id": "https://michaelharley.net/links/2026/08/15/employers-are-using-your-personal-data-to-figure-out-the-lowest-salary-youll-accept/", "url": "https://michaelharley.net/links/2026/08/15/employers-are-using-your-personal-data-to-figure-out-the-lowest-salary-youll-accept/", "title": "π Employers are using your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept", "content_html": "\n\nOne of the clearest examples of surveillance-driven wage setting appears in on-demand healthcare staffing. A report put together by the Roosevelt Institute, a liberal-leaning think tank, was based on interviews with 29 gig nurses and found that staffing platforms that gig nurses use to sign up for shifts, including CareRev, Clipboard Health, ShiftKey and ShiftMed, routinely use algorithms to set pay for individual shifts.
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I'm disappointed that an Ars author wouldn't make a distinction between cloud based smart devices and local ones.
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-08-14T20:06:20.000-04:00" }, { "id": "https://michaelharley.net/links/2026/08/11/new-surveillance-tech-links-your-phone-to-your-license-plate/", "url": "https://michaelharley.net/links/2026/08/11/new-surveillance-tech-links-your-phone-to-your-license-plate/", "title": "π New surveillance tech links your phone to your license plate", "content_html": "\n\nImagine that you share a ride to work with the same colleague most mornings. As it passes by a license plate reader, the camera records the car, which can be linked through vehicle records to its registered owner. Beside it, another sensor detects signals broadcast by devices traveling nearby, such as your phone and your colleagueβs smartwatch.
\nAfter enough trips, software may treat some of those devices as a recurring electronic signature associated with the vehicle. Weeks later, one of the same device signals appears alongside a different car connected to an investigation. The signal itself may not contain its ownerβs name, but its previous association with a known vehicle gives investigators another clue they can use to work out who was carrying the device.
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You know, I've stopped fighting it. Bloggers who are software engineers like to mess with the software and talk about messing with the software, present company included. I have a blog because I enjoy building it and tinkering with it. I have a blog because sometimes, I like to write. So I just accept it, and I'm less disappointed in myself for not writing like a proper blogger.
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Surely they'll cancel the program as soon as the current admin is out... right??
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-08-05T20:39:59.000-04:00" }, { "id": "https://michaelharley.net/links/2026/07/28/zooz-800-series-z-wave-long-range-motion-dimmer-zen12-800lr/", "url": "https://michaelharley.net/links/2026/07/28/zooz-800-series-z-wave-long-range-motion-dimmer-zen12-800lr/", "title": "π Zooz 800 Series Z-Wave Long Range Motion Dimmer ZEN12 800LR", "content_html": "\n\nThe Zooz Motion Dimmer is the smart switch that does more, automatically. It combines a dimmer, motion sensor, and ambient light sensor in one device, so lights turn on only when someone is in the room and only when extra light is actually needed.
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Hey look at this new #Zooz device. Looks pretty cool!
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