Is your bank spying on you?
It’s no secret that telephone calls on the trading floor are monitored, but events of the past few days suggest banks’ scrutiny of employees goes a little further than this.
Deutsche Bank is alleged to have gone so far as to hire detectives to spy on male employees suspected of leaking information. And in the ongoing saga over Serge Aleynikov and his alleged removal of secret codes from Goldman Sachs, the Financial Times reports that Goldman, ‘monitored Mr Aleynikov’s e-mails and computer activity in his final days at the firm.’
Is such behaviour a) normal and b) acceptable? We are inviting comment below…
