Workplace Surveilance

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  • 1. You Are Being WatchedSurveillance atworkplace

2. General principles for surveillance policies1. Openness2. Consent3. Consultation4. Private spaces5. Proportionality 3. Types of surveillance Overt surveillance Covert Surveillance 4. Methods of SurveillanceTelephone surveillance Telephone tapping Video facility To collect location data 5. Biometric surveillanceTechnologies that measure and analyze humanphysical and/or behavioral characteristics forauthentication, identification, or screening purposes. physical characteristics -fingerprints, DNA behavioral characteristics - a persons manner ofwalking or voice 6. Corporate surveillanceMonitoring of activities within a business or within theindustry associated with that business.Monitoring of a person or groups behavior by a corporation 7. Methods of Surveillance Internet SurveillanceThis surveillance monitor the employee internet activities. For this most of companies use spy ware & cookies. 8. Video Surveillance Through this surveillance monitor the employeeworkplace activities.In here video cameras connectingWith recording device use. There areMany uses of these surveillance. 9. Computer Surveillance This surveillance monitor the data and e maila through a softwares such as the FBIs Magic Lantern and CIPAV.There are uses of this surveillance such as, Preventing excessive personal use of computers, Protecting security of computer system from external threats,Blocking Spam e- mails. 10. The way in which Workplace Surveillance isregulated. Sri Lankan Situation. Regulations in other countries. Workplace video surveillance Act 1998in New South Wales. Workplace Privacy Act 2011 inAustralia. Regulatory requirements. 11. Covert Surveillance. Reasonable suspicion. Unlawful Activity. Should exclude the areas where there is a heightened expectation of privacy (rest rooms, wash rooms, bed rooms etc.) Violation of the rules in the act by an employer is a Criminal Offence 12. Tracking employees inside the workplace. Access cards. Optical surveillance devices. Internet, email tracking. Telephone tracking. Tracking employees outside the workplace. Vehicle tracking (GPS). Mobile phone tracking. 13. Advantages of workplacesurveillance Increase productivity Ensure workplace safety and security Ensure implementing smoothly Reducing exposure to liability risk control the cost. Eliminate leaking of confidential 14. Disadvantages of workplacesurveillance Distrust and resentment. High cost Difficult to protect Employee privacy 15. Where we use surveillance atworkplacePractical examples from 16. Examples from Logiwiz Telephone calls Monitoring E-Mail Monitoring CCTV Monitoring 17. Examples from Logiwiz - Cont Web Browsing Limitations Location Monitoring Monthly Night work Roster 18. Practical Issues of surveillance Mass surveillance limited personal, social, politicalfreedoms. surveillance create in everyone a feeling of alwaysbeing watched Civil rights groups and privacy groups opposesurveillance as a violation of peoples right toprivacy. 19. How HR Manager can intervene in surveillance Reduce conflictsCreate Develop aHR awarenes ManagerSurveillansce Policy Create aprotectiveatmosphere 20. Thank You