This document discusses workplace surveillance and provides information on various types and methods of surveillance including overt, covert, telephone, biometric, corporate, internet, video, and computer surveillance. It outlines general principles for surveillance policies, discusses advantages and disadvantages of workplace surveillance, regulations around surveillance in different countries, and practical issues related to surveillance. Examples of workplace surveillance from Logiwiz are also provided.

1. You Are Being Watched
Surveillance at
workplace

2. General principles for surveillance
policies
1. Openness
2. Consent
3. Consultation
4. Private spaces
5. Proportionality

3. Types of surveillance
 Overt surveillance
 Covert Surveillance

4. Methods of Surveillance
Telephone surveillance
 Telephone tapping
 Video facility
 To collect location data

5. Biometric surveillance
Technologies that measure and analyze human
physical and/or behavioral characteristics for
authentication, identification, or screening purposes.
 physical characteristics -fingerprints, DNA
 behavioral characteristics - a person's manner of
walking or voice

6. Corporate surveillance
Monitoring of activities within a business or within the
industry associated with that business.
Monitoring of a person or group's behavior by a
corporation

7. Methods of Surveillance
 Internet Surveillance
This surveillance monitor the employee internet
activities. For this most of companies use spy ware
& cookies.

8.  Video Surveillance
Through this surveillance monitor the employee
workplace activities.
In here video cameras connecting
With recording device use. There are
Many uses of these surveillance.

9.  Computer Surveillance
This surveillance monitor the data and e
maila through a softwares such as the FBI's 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 is
regulated.
 Sri Lankan Situation.
 Regulations in other countries.
 ‘Workplace video surveillance Act’ 1998
in New South Wales.
 ‘Workplace Privacy Act’ 2011 in
Australia.
 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 workplace
surveillance
 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 workplace
surveillance
 Distrust and resentment.
 High cost
 Difficult to protect Employee privacy

15. Where we use surveillance at
workplace
Practical 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, political
freedoms.
 surveillance create in everyone a feeling of always
being watched
 Civil rights groups and privacy groups oppose
surveillance as a violation of people's right to
privacy.

19. How HR Manager can intervene in surveillance
Reduce
conflicts
Create Develop a
HR
awarenes Manager Surveillan
s ce Policy
Create a
protective
atmospher
e

20. Thank You