"Orwell warned us in writing 1984 that without a presumption of privacy and freedom of thought, the coming technology of surveillance had the capacity to extinguish most of what it means to be human".
So wrote Iain MacWhirter in The Herald of 10th October 2013 in a
fascinating article about the dangers facing us in current times
where Orwell's fears have not only been realised but exceeded.
"If you haven't done anything wrong, you have nothing to
fear', said Andrew Parker of MI5 or words to that effect. Oh
yes you have.
So what about the workplace where Her Majesty's Judges are the
guardian of the standards and the controllers of what goes and what
does not in the context of the Employment Tribunal, the Employment
Appeal Tribunal (EAT) and the Courts above?
Read more here, where we will be discussing:
- CCTV at work
- Work Email monitoring
- Office phones
- What else could the employer try? How about bugging your workplace or your private office?
- What of our Judges? Are they worried about privacy breach in a bugging event and/or freedom of the individual not to be recorded behind his back?
- What about 2084 in the workplace?
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