Thanks, but no thanks

Is it just me or is there something rather spooky about this email which (I think) is trying to sell me a mobile phone:

Dear Simon,

I hope you don't mind, but I wanted to send you this e-mail regarding a brand new product we've developed that could be of massive benefit to the Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco.

Via our secure website you can view the live location and history of your people's movements, minute by minute across the UK & Europe. Other benefits of the phone are:

• The time your employee spent at a customer's site
• Whether they went to site at all
• What time they arrived
• General visibility of your vehicles and people
• Validating overtime claims
• Monitoring vehicle speed
• Performance monitoring

Our customers think our product is fantastic! It operates just like vehicle tracking but without most of the downsides and a lot more on top. It's a communication and navigation tool for your staff, with covert live tracking built in.

"Covert live tracking"? I think I'll give it a miss.

Comments

[Michael Peoples]

Hi Simon,

I would not be bothered if my employer provided one of these phones for me but if the wife finds out about them.......

[ann]

Spooky isnt the word for it, more like big brother trying to outdo bigger brother, thats the way life if going now when the ordinary joe soap is taking a lead from the top by getting a false sense of power, justifying it in the name of security or health to cash in on his fellow man.

[Lyn]

I don't think I can take much more of this big brother stuff! Telling what we can and can't do and where we can and can't do it; fining us for the silliest of little things; more cctv cameras than anywhere else in the world; our lives are no longer our own and it seems that whenever I start to take control of my depression and anxiety, something else, like this, comes along and bumps up the anxiety again, which in turn usually triggers the depression!

If the government want to get more people off benefits and beck into work, particularly those with mental health problems, then they need to stop snooping on everyone and persecuting the innocent for the smallest indescretion, make support services available, full stop, but especially available outside normal working hours.

I do still work, although it can be very tough at times, but I had to lose money and reduce my hours in order to attend a CBT course and to me losing £100 per month was a lot.

Many people who suffer like me are a lot worse and some also suffer paranoia and this sort of spying will only increase the number of sufferers and be of precious little benefit to anyone, just like the cctv cameras!