1. Big Brother Camera’s
Brittany Todd

2. These cameras allow anyone to view practically anything from anywhere.
What Are They?
These cameras allow anyone to view practically anything from anywhere.
Connect one of the cameras to an Ethernet or wireless computer network at home, then navigate your browser to a Web site linked to an Internet address assigned to the camera.
Systems ran the range from simple configurations allowing parents to check on their children, to 16-camera networks providing multi-point remote surveillance of office buildings.

3. Cost!
Such systems offer the advantage of relative affordability, since they use existing broadband infrastructure. Off-the-shelf software-equipped cameras cost just $200-$300 apiece, said vendors at Computex, most of them smaller firms. More consumer oriented models, such as the Linksys model, can cost even less.

4. Couple of Facts! Weatherproof • Bullet-resistant
• Able to be mounted on light poles, building faces or other structures
• Film in color
• Able to pan, tilt and zoom with a joystick-type device
• Able to work in the dark
• Remotely controlled
• Outfitted with a visible Metro police insignia
• Equipped with a ''high visibility rotating or strobe light, blue in color,'' that police could turn on and off from a remote site.
• Able to record in 30-hour segments

5. Workplace Monitoring
Additional forms of monitoring and surveillance, such as reviewing phone logs or videotaping for security purposes,
bring the overall figure on electronic oversight to 82%, up from 67% just two years ago. On average, 88% of
companies engaged in any such practices inform their employees of their policies.
More than three-quarters of major U.S. firms (77.7%) record and review employee communications and activities
on the job, including their phone calls, , Internet connections, and computer files. The figure has doubled
since 1997

6. Productivity Measures
Why Companies Monitor?
Security Concerns
Legal Liability
Legal Compliance
Performance Review
Productivity Measures
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse

7. Other monitoring that takes place
Some employees monitor the employees computers
monitoring jokes and sent from home as well as work over company servers
computer files
phone calls of their workers

8. Employee Rights
This website has information about employee rights to company monitoring