Monitoring and Privacy: Is Your Head Still In the Sand?
In turn, we are observed and monitored every day. Only the high cost of persistent, systematic surveillance systems prohibits their widespread use in public places today. And without the aid of machines, the observers quickly forget what they saw and rarely collect and correlate data for later use. In the future, security checks like the one at Super Bowl XXXV -- in which hidden cameras scanned the faces of arriving spectators and compared their portraits with photos of alleged criminals -- may be commonplace.
When the setting changes from the public to the private-sector workplace, however, monitoring takes on a different significance. Enterprises can and often should monitor their employees in the ordinary course of business.
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