Are to be eased, from monday. Duncan kennedy reports from the new forest. Across england, from the beaches of brighton to the scenery of surrey, its already starting to look crowded in some places ahead of mondays changes. In the new forest, most but not all families welcome the adjustment that allows groups of up to six people to meet. I dont think itll do any harm, as long as everyones sensible, yeah. So i think, yes, meet up, be sensible, keep a distance and i cant see it being a problem. Its dangerous. Weve got to keep on how we are doing now, social distancing and keep everything closed. New Police Figures in england show fines for breaching lockdown laws fell below 900 in the past two weeks, but guardians at popular places like this still have concerns about whats coming. Right across england, the rules do change from monday about social distancing. Whats your message to the public . The rules may change on monday, but our message remains the same, that you need to plan your visit and you need to maintain that social distancing mentioned in the regulations. You cant suddenly turn up with 20 members of your family to a party. From monday, any meetings may only be outside and must keep to the two metre rule. This is evolution, not liberation, from lockdown. Duncan kennedy, bbc news. Heres click. Hello, you. Hope youre doing 0k. The weathers getting warmer here which means only one thing any minute now you will hear my next door neighbours lawnmower whiz past and theres nothing i can do about it. Sorry, lara. There is an app for that, you know, dont you watch a programme called click . Oh yes, i remember. Good point we were actually all meant to be outside this week at the hay festival, but alas its not happening this year. Yeah, i know. Im going to miss the hay festival this year. Hay is still online though and theyve got loads of speakers who are giving talks from their homes rather like the rest of us these days. Yes. How are you finding working from home, spencer . Um, well, im really lucky to be able to work from home, but the weird thing is, whenever i have worked at home in the past i have worked harder and longer than i have in the office, basically because im paranoid people will think im skiving off. Yeah, i can understand that although, of course, not everybodys that conscientious. And speaking to a lot of friends i think the idea that moving forward many of us could be working from home more, even after the pandemic. Well, while our bosses cant watch us in the way they would in the office there is some technology that might. With millions of us now working from home, managers are facing new challenges. Homeworkers are harder to monitor and so trust is vital. However, in recent weeks demand for software to monitor employees has surged in the us, so it seems not everyone is quite so trusting. While Companies May argue that its simply about maintaining productivity, others may feel that were slipping into a time of creepy surveillance. So based on these concerns, New York Times journalist adam satarino decided to conduct an unusual experiment. I wanted to see how this Employee Monitoring Software worked. And so i thought the best way to do that would just be to turn it on myself so i downloaded the software on my computer, on my phone, and then i turned it around and gave my manager, my editor in San Francisco access as well, just knowing that your supervisor was looking over my shoulder and could see screenshots of what was on my computer screen, or a log of what websites i was visiting, that sort of change how you behave and how you perform yourjob. Adam used Monitoring Software hubstaff. The software is now installed on over 100,000 company machines. It can snap screenshots of your computer every few minutes. Other software on the market can even record your screen and monitor every keystroke. I really did begin to feel that it was intrusive and over the top. It spits out this percentage which becomes kind of your productivity score that can be used to measure you. And so mine were always stubbornly low, which was surprising, i consider myself to be a fairly productive person. I am embarrassed to say i looked at that number and i was like, what . What is going on here . it kind of raises immediate questions like what is this guy doing . So i should have known better, because when he explained that this really only measures the amount of time youre, you know, typing on your device and using your device and your laptop, that explained a lot. But knowing what else he was doing felt really weird and intrusive. And it was kind of gross, you know. Its like youre not only violating adams privacy, youre sort of violating other peoples privacy that he was communicating with by extension. Adams experiment was one manager monitoring one employee and the Companies Providing the software argue that this isnt a true reflection of how their customers use it. But thats not the reality of what really happens. What really happens is i have 100 employees and theres nobody whos going around looking at the detail of 100 employees. So really what theyre looking for is just those basic insights that we talked about. And the detail is just there if its needed, if something looks off, looks awry. However, in the United States the sudden surge in demand has started to draw attention to the lack of Legal Protection for workers privacy. And also, highlighted a power imbalance between employers and employees. Governmental action is necessary to protect workers from being forced to treat their dignity in the employment bargain. In february, i did testify in congress in the subcommittee on labour and education, and this was an issue that was raised. This productivity tracking of employees and also the fate of the data that is collected. With millions more of us now working from home, dr ajunwa concerns have become even more pressing. She told us that currently employers are currently allowed to secretly monitor employees as no federal law exists that requires them to inform their workers about surveillance. Its now a free for all. Its the wild, wild west. Everybody is now subject to the same kind of minute monitoring as we previously thought was, you know, the plight of those poor factory or warehouse workers. And theres also the issue of employment discrimination that can arise from all this data collection. If youre taking screenshots, you might discover information about the employee that you perhaps would not have discovered in a traditional workplace. You might discover that the employee is of a different sexual orientation, so that could also give rise to discrimination on those grounds, or a different religion. But in europe, where productivity monitoring of employees is still legal, there is much tighter oversight, and there are regulations around its use. In europe we have to tell people what were doing and why, and ensure that we have lawful grounds for doing that. If an organisation has a legitimate interest in collecting the data for workforce productivity in certain areas, then it will be able to do so without consent, but it will still need to be transparent with its employees, telling them what its doing and of course putting safeguards to protect the data. Maybe we will see this sort of Employee Surveillance become the norm, but clearly it will stir quite some debate. After all, how would you feel if your boss was monitoring you . In the dead of the night something is afoot. Two feet, in fact, and a jump. Westpac little group group and myself are sleep to track down roving kangaroos or the occasional wandering walla by. Were not fussy. Table, check, carpet, check, two unmanned aerial vehicles, check, check. Im out with the same team behind the drones ive covered before. With the bushfires and the animals that have been affected we are now taking the Amazing Technology we have out on the beaches for the last three years and we have put it over the bushland. Now they have turned nocturnal and their new targets are considerably cuddly creatures. We can see kangaroo, kangaroo, kangaroo. They really stand out against the background. We are filming before sunrise during the coldest part of the day. So the new thermal cameras fixed to the drones can work properly. As well as being able to serve a huge swathe of land in the blink of an airborn eye, the drones thermal capabilities can help in other ways. A thermal signature makes animals much easier to see at night. Their natural internal temperatures making them visible even in the most dense of treetop canopies and the different individual temperatures of the animals can be recorded therefore making them more distinct between species. Different animals show up at different temperatures they have different fur that ensulates them. So is just a matter of picking them out so you can see there is a whole bunch of different kangaroos in this field. Doctor grant hamilton from Queensland University of technology is also using drones to monitor koalas. Hes devised an algorithm to automatically detect animals in the outback using computer vision. 0n the right hand side we have the Artificial Intelligence algorithm working and on the left hand side we have the thermal imagery. Its a koala. Initially it was falsely detecting kangaroos, for example, as koalas. We were even detecting humans and even hot car bonnets. But thats the whole point that you go back and you retrain the algorithm. So the algorithm gets better and better and better, to the point now where we are better than humans at detecting koalas. So were now going to work with and institutions to take the datasets and algorithms they have started to develop, layer it over our technology, which enables us to do these surveys at night in the field and get Real Time Data back. And thats the key. Someone who knows a thing or two about the state of Australian Animals is doctor michael payne. When i first started here 20 years ago we admitted just three koalas in the whole year and last year we admitted almost 600 koalas. He sees real value in an up to date digital sensors. These surveys are done intermittently, maybe every ten years, and in many areas they are not done at all, its just estimates. Technology such as drones, using those thermal cameras, can mean a large area can be covered in short periods of time, you know, relatively cheaply to get those numbers so we know how many koalas are there and that makes all the difference. Only if we know whats there can we manage whats there and be able to make, you know, decisions about the future. Thats it for the shortcut of click. The long version is available on iplayer. You can keep up on facebook, instagram and twitter. Thank you for watching and we will see you soon. By by. Bye bye. Delivering papers used in waking up really early but now my back is a way of you because i go after tea. Thats better. It plays havoc with my tires. Rain or shine we make sure we get your headlines. 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