Employee+Surveillance

__Employee Surveillance__

 * Surveillance** is the monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other changing information, usually of people and often in a surreptitious manner. It most usually refers to observation of individuals or groups by government organizations, but disease surveillance, for example, is monitoring the progress of a disease in a community.

An article example; "John Fox is a senior technical analyst at Sapphire Technologies, an IT placement firm in Woburn, Massachusetts. He’s the man to call when the server is down, the network fails, or the system crashes. He’s also the guy to call if someone at the company is sending harassing e-mails or viewing porn sites. Fox is Sapphire’s tech-enabled Big Brother. A year and a half ago, the company installed both e-mail and Internet monitoring systems from Elron Software in Burlington, Massachusetts. The e-mail product, Message Inspector, is set up using triggers -- certain words, video files, or attachments -- that, when detected, forward the message immediately to Fox for review. The Web component of the monitoring system automatically blocks graphically explicit sites, and if an employee tries to go to a blocked site, Fox is notified. Using parameters given to him by human resources, essentially to block hardcore porn and violence sites, Fox can veto the block, which sometimes occurs automatically because a certain word, say "naked," appears on a Web page too many times..." [|Article Link]