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Cameras in the workplace

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  • #32
    Newaglish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,734 ✭✭✭Newaglish


    ellscurr wrote:
    It's also worth pointing out (and may make you feel more comfortable OP!) that it is highly unlikely anyone actually watches the feed, unless something does go wrong etc. I doubt the MD is holed up in this recliner office chair with some popcorn and a coke checking out what's going on with the little people on the floor.

    And to put it in perspective, most large retailers have extensive CCTV capabilities and I can't imagine you feeling violated every time you go into Tesco and their cameras track your every move?

    I used to work in an newsagent and it was exactly like that - the manager upstairs would literally spend all day just watching her wall of screens up in her office. If you paused to read the front of a newspaper she'd come storming down screaming "I can see what you're doing, you know!". Ah, teenage jobs...

    More on topic, while it's fair enough from there perspective to have cameras in the workplace, i'd find it really bothersome, especially in an office environment where you're actually sitting in the same place all day. I didn't mind in the shop when I was moving about, because even when you know it's being monitored constantly, you can forget about it. In your situation, i'd really feel like someone is watching me.

    It's certainly an unusual move for management to take, something must have provoked them to set up this system, though this could be anything from suspicion of fraud to insurance discounts for having them.


  • #33
    aligator_am
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,598 ✭✭✭aligator_am


    Sorry to wade in mid conversation but I find myself in a similar position to OP, the main difference being that the cameras that were discovered on site were hidden! one of the engineers found them by accident and was totally fuming (which I can understand) but the most ridiculous part of the whole thing was that there were a couple of dvd drives and some unopened optical mice left on the workbench for a couple of weeks, which I thought was odd, this seems to coincide with when the cameras must have been installed, sounds like entrapment to me, and I'm fairly sure that it's illegal to install hidden cameras in any job (could be wrong though)


  • #34
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    BostonB wrote:
    Its there so you don't misuse company time aswell as everything else.

    The AUP is rarely put in place to prevent you wasting the company's time. The AUP is written either by the head of the IT department, or by the InfoSec specialist. It is there to protect the network from invasion, viruses, spyware etc. When it says you can not have an ipod on the property, it is not because they do not want you listening to iPod in work, it is because you can load computer exploits on to an ipod, connect it to the network, and using minimal technical knowledge create a backdoor to said network.

    Unless the AUP states that the OP is not allowed browse the Internet or check personal email, I still do not see how connecting into her home computer breaks the AUP. Perhaps some one can explain it to me.


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