[privacy] Fw: Re: Germany probes Lidl store for Big Brother spying

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

There is new information now in May after the privacy list downtime period:

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Subject: Re: [funsec] Germany probes Lidl store for Big Brother spying
Sent: 8.5.2008 0:16
New information after the March '08 report of Spiegel Online:

"The German discount supermarket chain Lidl was recently caught spying on its workers. Now top bosses from the firm say they 
were as surprised as anyone else -- but explain that surveillance has to continue."
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Lidl Bosses Deny Knowledge of Employee Surveillance:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,548625,00.html

Juha-Matti

Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi> wrote: 
> "The probe follows a report that the popular supermarket had compiled a report stretching to several hundred pages which 
> recorded everything from employees' toilet breaks to their suspected love-affairs.
>
> German authorities are investigating allegations that international discount chain store Lidl employed detectives and 
> used cameras to spy on thousands of workers in stores across Germany.
>
> The probe follows a report in the prominent German magazine Stern that the popular supermarket had compiled a report stretching 
> to several hundred pages which recorded everything from employees' toilet breaks to their suspected love-affairs."
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>
> More at
> http://www.eitb24.com/new/en/B24_92032/Business/INTERNATIONAL-CHAIN-STORE-Germany-probes-Lidl-store-for/
>
> Some examples of the spy reports covered at
> http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,543485,00.html
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