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Story: Workplaces 'should ban camera phones'

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What a ridiculous notion. Why bother doing mobile phone photography espionage when most employees can print out most sensitive documents and take them outside the company anyway. A ban is only worthy of consideration where access to 3D prototypes is possible, but why mobile phones? I can get a much better picture out of a 2megapixel camera the size of a USB memory stick. The real issue is the leakage of ideas, software code, hardware design, contract information and sales contacts. How, for example, do you stop a disgruntled salesman leaving your company and taking your CRM database with him? Or emailing it to a competitor - after all, the law prevents you snooping on employees emails. And forget high-tech countermeasures to prevent email and database export; he can still print CRM details page by page. More effort should be placed on how corporate confidentiality is to be protected in general rather than this ridiculous knee-jerk reaction.

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