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Quote:A former Wal-Mart employee who recently was fired for allegedly recording phone calls with reporters claims he was part of a company-wide surveillance operation that Wal-Mart routinely carries out on associates through activities, including reading employees' personal e-mail and monitoring anti-Wal-Mart groups. The former employee claims he was working under the company's own head of security...

Companies increasingly are monitoring their employees, said Larry Ponemon, founder of The Ponemon Institute, a research foundation that focuses on privacy and data protection practices of companies, but surveilling vendors and consultants is "beyond the realm of what legitimate companies do," he said.

"[Wal-Mart] seems like an organization that has a culture that doesn't trust its employees and it certainly doesn't trust its vendors or consultants," said Ponemon...