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How would it feel if the company checks my location every three minutes to make sure I'm doing my job right?
There is a controversy over the installation of an app that sends a location every 3 minutes to a life support company for the elderly care business operated with government money.
Reporter Yoon Nara reports.
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Life support workers visit and help the elderly who have difficulty in daily life.
I am hired by a social welfare institution entrusted by the Ministry of Health and Welfare to work as a one-year contract, and welfare institutions are asking support companies to install a work management app.
When you install the app, the location of the applicant is sent to the welfare institution every 3 minutes.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare is in a position that it recommended an alternative because there were cases of leaving the workplace without properly caring for the elderly.
Of the 25,000 living support companies nationwide, 23,000 are using this app, and it is said that it is difficult to back off because of excessive surveillance.
[Living Support Agent: (Use the app) When I said that I couldn't, I was like (at a welfare institution)'It's hard to work with a teacher.'
It sounds like a threat.] According to the
law, when using an app that collects and uses location information, you have to report it to the Korea Communications Commission, but there is a problem that the report was not available.
[Kang Seon-woo/Deocratic Democratic Party Member (Health and Welfare Committee): Even if such a system has been put forward with good intentions, it is correct to turn if it results in infringement of human rights.]
The Ministry of Health and Welfare advised not to collect location information every three minutes, but only at the start and end of work.