Amazon wristbands could track workers' hand movements

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-amazon-wristbands-privacy-20180215-story.htmlChicago Tribune (Feb. 20) -- Amazon’s new wristbands that track hand movements could give employers a fine-tuned understanding of how workers’ hands are moving, what’s working in the warehouse and what isn’t, says Romit Roy Choudhury, a professor of computer engineering at Illinois. “Putting the wrong box in a particular place can have cascading effects,” he says. “Being able to track these things and give an alert on your wrist saying that you put it in the wrong place, I think, is very important.”