![]() ![]() DO create a corporate surveillance policy. "Security, in my view, is rooted solely in common sense." Below are six tips-some dos and don'ts that are indeed mostly common sense-that can help you navigate the current world of video surveillance and prepare for its rapid evolution, while avoiding any of the boneheaded moves (like, say, an ill-considered hidden camera) that can undo in a heartbeat all the goodwill you've spent years building up. "It's not rocket science," says Miles Bielec, director of security operations at software giant SAS. On the bright side, a little forethought can largely defuse those dangers. Inattentive CSOs are sitting on ever more threatening legal landmines. Digital, IP-based video systems are beginning to make a dent in the old-line hegemony of CCTV systems, and cameras are getting ever smaller, cheaper and more powerful. And if companies aren't spelling out their surveillance posture now, then the picture promises more static than clarity in the near future. In research conducted for this special report, 44 percent of respondents copped to having no official video surveillance policy (see additional results from the "CSO Surveillance and Monitoring Survey" on ). The same is true for video surveillance-the legal system gives organizations the right to place cameras in every nook and cranny of their workplaces, with the exception of areas where employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy (bathrooms and locker rooms, for example).īut many companies don't actually have a written policy in the employee handbook stating that the company has the right to freely monitor the workplace. After all, companies own the computers, telephones and electronic equipment their workers use, and have the well-established right to monitor their usage. "If the hidden camera had been working, it might have been a different outcome," says the attorney.ĬSOs have a lot of leeway when it comes to monitoring employees. Ultimately, the company argued that it was a nonworking camera the suit was dismissed on other grounds. After that employee resigned, the company remodeled the office, covering (but not removing) the camera. It was a nonworking (fake) camera and, originally, plainly visible. Why was a camera secreted in the ceiling? Turns out that the company, with the blessing of the HR director, had installed a camera in that particular office to deter a worker suspected of stealing. That juicy (in a Court TV kind of way) incident took place a couple of years ago, recounts an attorney whose firm defended the company after the woman filed a wrongful termination lawsuit (the complaint was raised as part of the suit the attorney asked to remain anonymous). The company shouldn't have been too surprised when she filed a complaint. ![]() Much to her surprise, what she did find was a hidden camera. Why was water leaking from the ceiling, she wondered? Taking a closer look, she didn't find the source of the leak. The prosecutor will decide whether to press charges.That's what caught the new employee's attentionwater dripping from the ceiling of her office. Police will turn the case over to the Wayne County prosecutor once forensics complete their review of the phone. The owner of the phone, an Ypsilanti resident, was processed by police but has been released pending what is found on the phone, officials said. ![]() Police have since identified the owner of the cellphone, and forensics teams are going through the phone. She grabbed the phone back from employees and called the police.Īt that time, a gym employee reportedly fled the building on foot, running out of the back door of the gym. The woman brought the cellphone to management to alert them, but it became obvious to the woman that management was involved, officials said. She looked and saw a cellphone camera in the ceiling. 13, a woman was using the restroom at Anytime Fitness on Belleville Road in Van Buren Township when she noticed a ceiling tile was not set properly. ![]() – A gym employee in Wayne County is accused of positioning a cell phone camera in the ceiling of a women’s restroom, which was found by a gym member. ![]()
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