Union vows to resist ‘Big Brother-style surveillance’ after newspaper reportedly installed sensors tracking whether workers are at their desksThe Daily Telegraph has been criticised by the National Union of Journalists for carrying out “surveillance” on its journalists by installing devices that monitor whether they are at their desks.
Journalists at the newspaper’s London HQ arrived on Monday morning to find the boxes,which track whether someone is at their desk using heat and motion sensors, BuzzFeed reported. Telegraph management emailed staff at lunchtime, and saying the monitors would be in place for four weeks to benefit diagram measures to improve energy efficiency.
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Source: theguardian.com