I wonder, I work as a consultant, and if you think surveillance at a place like Google or Facebook (from what I've been able to tell at interview), surveillance there is minimal.
McDonalds, and more general retail businesses, Target, Walgreens, ..., call centres, ... those are the ones both installing massive surveillance and actually getting it analyzed. Or at least, enough to pay me loads of money to make it possible, and I've had some conversations, they do this routinely. And frankly, I'm pretty sure that since this is directed by low-level managers (you can't do it otherwise, not at that scale, all tracking is done by the store manager) there will be tons and tons of abuse of these systems. I mean for trivial reasons, like stealing, attempting to make a false accusation of stealing stick, stalking girls (or even men), that sort of thing.
From what I can tell, at FB the entrances and exits, some presumably high value locations inside and to a lesser extent the parking lot, those are the places under surveillance. I'm pretty sure that at most places in the FB buildings nobody can see you on any security monitor (it's one of those open plan offices, not much privacy, easy to get everything under surveillance, but they're not doing it. I've been to several call centres where surveillance was utterly pervasive in the same sort of environment. Although the environment was much, much better at FB. Big open office plan, but the air was perfect, for lack of a better word. It wasn't cramped at all, it wasn't like those call centres at all, no wall smelled, not like smoke, not like oil, nothing like that). And of course you hear stories, like "sneaking" into the office on sunday for a board game because it's an easy place and central for everyone to get together is pretty normal.
Of course I realize that this is "fake" like it is fake at any company. Unless you're the CEO AND own a majority of the shares, the company is not a social club, it is not there to have your back. But they have that vibe going there, and they wouldn't have that vibe if they broke it for trivial reasons.
> legal threats and restricted stock units to prevent and detect intellectual property theft
Protecting yourself against insider threats by giving employees means for a good life ! How UNAMERICAN !
I'm pretty sure at your local supermarket you'd find those same threats, except they're totally pervasive. Every employee will have been threatened, and I assure you, ...
... not with restricted stock units or any kind of reward.
Do you need to surveil employees with cameras when you can monitor everything they do on their computers and track where their phone is in the building?
McDonalds, and more general retail businesses, Target, Walgreens, ..., call centres, ... those are the ones both installing massive surveillance and actually getting it analyzed. Or at least, enough to pay me loads of money to make it possible, and I've had some conversations, they do this routinely. And frankly, I'm pretty sure that since this is directed by low-level managers (you can't do it otherwise, not at that scale, all tracking is done by the store manager) there will be tons and tons of abuse of these systems. I mean for trivial reasons, like stealing, attempting to make a false accusation of stealing stick, stalking girls (or even men), that sort of thing.
From what I can tell, at FB the entrances and exits, some presumably high value locations inside and to a lesser extent the parking lot, those are the places under surveillance. I'm pretty sure that at most places in the FB buildings nobody can see you on any security monitor (it's one of those open plan offices, not much privacy, easy to get everything under surveillance, but they're not doing it. I've been to several call centres where surveillance was utterly pervasive in the same sort of environment. Although the environment was much, much better at FB. Big open office plan, but the air was perfect, for lack of a better word. It wasn't cramped at all, it wasn't like those call centres at all, no wall smelled, not like smoke, not like oil, nothing like that). And of course you hear stories, like "sneaking" into the office on sunday for a board game because it's an easy place and central for everyone to get together is pretty normal.
Of course I realize that this is "fake" like it is fake at any company. Unless you're the CEO AND own a majority of the shares, the company is not a social club, it is not there to have your back. But they have that vibe going there, and they wouldn't have that vibe if they broke it for trivial reasons.
> legal threats and restricted stock units to prevent and detect intellectual property theft
Protecting yourself against insider threats by giving employees means for a good life ! How UNAMERICAN !
I'm pretty sure at your local supermarket you'd find those same threats, except they're totally pervasive. Every employee will have been threatened, and I assure you, ...
... not with restricted stock units or any kind of reward.