Business Law Palm Beach

Businesses can have video surveillance in the workplace but it depends where those cameras are located and their purpose. Electronic surveillance of the workplace can be tremendously beneficial for a business as to both employees and customers.  Business owners engaging in such workplace surveillance are wise to openly display their cameras or place a sign in a prominent location indicating that cameras exist on the premises. They are also smart if they have employees acknowledge the existence of the cameras in some writing like their employee handbook. Security cameras in a business may also be capable of recording and storing video and sound. Because of the robust capabilities that these relatively low cost devices now offer the business should familiarize itself with the applicable law and the obligations that the business may have to preserve the data that those devices create and capture. Does a business owner have a legal obligation to put cameras in the business No, there is...