The Almighty Wal-Mart:
Gabbard said he recorded the calls because he felt pressured to stop
embarrassing leaks. But he said his spying activities were sanctioned by
superiors.
Gabbard said that as part of the surveillance, the retailer
infiltrated an anti-Wal-Mart group to determine if it planned protests at the
company's annual meeting last year and deployed monitoring systems to record the
actions of anyone connected to its global computer network.
...
"This group is no longer operating in the same manner that it did prior to
the discovery of the unauthorized recording of telephone conversations. There
have been changes in leadership, and we have strengthened our practices and
protocols in this area," the company said in a statement.
Wal-Mart has since
disconnected some systems and an internal investigation of the group's
activities was launched earlier this year, the paper said citing an executive in
the security-information industry.
But they have now turned over a new leaf, right?
Wal-Mart has always had strict limits on what its employees can do while at
work. Store employees are prohibited from using personal cell phones on the job.
And managers receive a list of email addresses and phone numbers their employees
have used as well as a list of Web sites visited, the paper said citing current
and former employees.
All in the name of shareholder value. Hah.
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