Book Review behind it. The availability of this information is an additional cause for concern. The author discusses reasons for surveillance which include monitoring employees to prevent unsanctioned acts, to increase productivity, to promote efficiency. Management may monitor employees to subordinate them through surveillance. (p. 37). Monitoring also is used currently as a deterrent to crime. Some of the technologies used for surveillance can change the power balance within business organizations. While management may be monitoring employees to see that they are engaged in business tasks, other surveillance is directed toward collecting data on employees t a ~ n g to friends, workers not at their workstations, and people on extended breaks. Yet another use of business surveillance is for the collection of marketing information. Consumer interests and buying patterns are monitored in order to sell more products. The privacy issues are not clearly separated with respect to the reasons for use of surveillance in particular situations. Provision of government services can be made contingent on the requirement for individuals to carry specific identification cards. This can be argued both as an affront to individual privacy and as an anti-fraud measure to provide efficient, theft-proof benefits such as
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