The Wall Street Journal has an article about a worker fired last month for intercepting New York Times reporter's phone calls and reveals he was part of a much larger, sophisticated surveillance operation which snooped on employees, critics, stockholders and even a consulting giant. From WSJ:
As part of the surveillance, the retailer last year had a long-haired employee infiltrate an anti-Wal-Mart group to determine if it planned protests at the company's annual meeting, according to Bruce Gabbard, the fired security worker, who worked in Wal-Mart's Threat Research and Analysis Group. The company also deployed cutting-edge monitoring systems made by a supplier to the Defense Department that allowed it to capture and record the actions of anyone connected to its global computer network. The systems' high-tech wizardry could detect the degree of flesh-tone on a viewed Internet image, and alerted monitors that a vendor sharing Wal-Mart networks was viewing pornography.Read the full article. Nu Wexler of Wal-Mart Watch - who was apparently one of the targets of the surveillance program - was interviewed on a segment on CNBC which also revealed more details about the spying program.
I believe that my Sociology professor was so shocked by the rawness of this movie that she made us watch it in our last class. Our next assignment is to write a paper on the pro's and con's of Walmart.
I wanted to ask "With all Due respect Mrs. Stewart, What Pro's? This is un freak in believable! Why didn't I already know this about them? Thanks for being so brave guys!
We should all pray for Walmart's current employees, post tramatic employees and their families. Lord please let them find another job.