List members may be interested to see the article below in which the corporate spying methods of BA management during the 2010 Cabin Crew dispute has finally been admitted in its scope and scale.
This was an unprecedented use of external agencies to spy on staffs' private emails, SMS messages and Facebook postings. Of course, the irony is that it all took place at the height of the 'hacking' scandal perpetrated by the national newspapers against 'celebrities', some of whom have now received substantial compensation.
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