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Privacy Council, a US-based company specializing in products and services to address privacy issues, has joined forces with lawyers, Littler Mendelson, to develop a best practice policy on workplace privacy. According to Chief Executive Officer of Privacy Council, Dr Larry Ponemon, the issue of employee surveillance is attracting privacy advocates: "Clearly it's coming, and if we don't develop some guidelines now, organizations will become crippled with confusion and be exposed to serious risk."

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