Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Supermarket german chain Lidl accused of snooping on staff

German discount supermarket chain Lidl has been accused of spying on employees, including recording how many times they go to the toilet and details about their love lives, personal finances and menstrual cycles.

An investigation by the German news magazine Stern symptoms of a broad intelligence system in stores across Germany. He obtained hundreds of pages of documents collected by the recipient indicted by the chain works to find out about its staff. Surveillance that occurred through a mini-video camera installed by the recipient. The official reasons given for the store manager is to reduce shoplifting.

Critics have accused Lidl of using "Stasi methods", which refers to the secret police of former East German communist country that kept track of the most banal and intimate details of hundreds of thousands of citizens lives.

The recipients' records, including details of precisely where employees had tattoos as well as information about their friends. One of the wives of most of the drugs always, and added "reads one note. Recipients also have the task to identify the employee who appears to be a" capable "or" author and naive. "

While most incidents seem to have occurred in Germany, one of the most startling allegations occurred in Lidl stores in the Czech Republic, where female workers are forbidden to go to the bathroom during working hours. Internal memorandum, which now is in the middle of the court cases in the republic, allegedly ask the staff that "female workers

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