Multinational corporation admits: It's not about the safety, it's about spying on workers.

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http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1142822--via-train-derailment-cn-wants-voice-recorders-to-check-up-on-employees

The country’s biggest railway supports putting voice recorders in trains. But CN officials want to use the technology to monitor their employees as well as provide information to accident investigators — a move that may be controversial with workers.

The Transportation Safety Board has renewed calls for voice recorders in trains in the wake of the fatal VIA derailment in Burlington last month. It noted that recorders are used in airplane cockpits and ships, but not on the rails.

Cockpit recordings in planes are only used, however, for investigations — and transcripts are never published in Canada, unlike the U.S., where transcripts of voice recordings are routinely made public in a final investigation report.

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CN supports adding voice recorders to the black boxes on its trains, “so long as we have the ability to use them in rule compliance,” said company spokesman Jim Feeny.

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1. Kick.

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2. Big Brother future is here.

The reasons to keep your head down and not cause "any trouble" are myriad, and growing.

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3. Kick.

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4. CN says: We'll cooperate with public safety ONLY if we get something out of it ourselves.

In other words, no public interest unless the profit motive for CN is supported.

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5. It's shameful and disgusting.

And par for the course ever since CN was privatized.