Big Brother is smartwatching you: China’s workers monitored by wearable tech

This is how a street cleaner in one Chinese city introduced a new piece of surveillance equipment that the local sanitation company slapped on her wrist to track her work. (Picture: Jiangsu City Channel)Sanitation workers in Nanjing’s Hexi district are now required to wear GPS-equipped smartwatches, according to a local report aired on Jiangsu City Channel. Sanitation workers in China tend to be older and typically earn between US$230 to US$300 a month, salaries way below average for big Chinese cities.

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