CITY CELLPHONE FOLLOWS TIME-CARD 'CHEATER' HOME

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

http://www.nypost.com/seven/08302007/news/regionalnews/track_trick.htm

August 30, 2007 -- A 21-year employee of the school system could lose his
job after officials accused him of repeatedly leaving early - and stunned
the worker with data it got by tracking his movements with a city-issued
cellphone, The Post has learned. 


In a precedent-setting case, administrative trial judge Tynia Richard
recommended the firing of John Halpin, a veteran supervisor of carpenters,
for cutting out before the end of his shift on as many as 83 occasions
between March 2 and Aug. 9, 2006. 


The evidence against Halpin, whose base pay is $300 a day, included time
cards that suspiciously appeared stamped on the same machine, even though
his duties placed him in different locations each day. 


But there was a clincher: data gathered through the GPS system on Halpin's
cellphone, which he accepted in 2005 without being told it might be used to
trace his every move. 

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