Surveillance work

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Surveillance _at_ work

• RFID
• Satellite (GPS) and cellular phone tracking
• (Digital) Video monitoring
• Email and internet monitoring/keystroke
  monitoring
• Telephone call monitoring
• Biometrics/implants
• Linking of data from different sources

2
Surveillance _at_ work

• Issues for unions
• Right to collective representation
• Health and safety issues, including stress
• Privacy and decent work

3
Surveillance _at_ work

• Radio Frequency Identification tags (RFID)
• Microchip connected to antenna
• Can be passive (woken up by a reader) or active
  (transmitting)
• Chip can be as small as grain of rice
• Range can be 2 cms to 10 metres (passive),
  several kilometres (active)

4
Surveillance _at_ work

• RFID in the workplace
• Tracking workers
• RFID chips in uniforms
• RFID implants
• Entry systems
• And an unlimited number of other possibilities

5
Surveillance _at_ work

• A UNI CODE OF GOOD PRACTICE
• Introduction of RFID
• A written RFID policy
• Transparency
• Access
• Restrictions on RFID tracking
• Restrictions over use of data collected
• 7. Use of RFID with other monitoring and
  surveillance technologies
• Protection of collective organisation and
  representation
• Special uses of RFID tags
• Health and safety
• Monitoring