Surveillance Versus Security Systems

There's A Big Difference

With membership limited to 100 property owners, the McCormick Mile Beach Club located in Ocean Ridge, Florida, is arguably the tony seaside town’s most exclusive private club. My family is one of the lucky few members.

Freshly painted slate blue with white trim, the clubhouse has undergone a majestic makeover unprecedented in its history. The subdivision developers who built the original simple structure as a property sales office almost 60 years ago (before turning it over to buyers) wouldn’t recognize it.

Attendant with the makeover, new security and surveillance equipment was installed to protect the Club and property which, in my opinion, raised a host of primarily social, i.e., neighborly concerns, although there are obvious related prickly legal and privacy issues.
I’ll admit that as an all-too-well-known forensic investigator of large-scale financial crimes nationally, I tend to take security and surveillance matters a bit more seriously than others.

In my opinion, the use of surveillance and information-gathering devices (in addition to security equipment) at private clubs (or businesses), poses far greater potential risks to both clubs and their members.

I am confident that through an open exchange of opinion, weighing of the pros and the cons of security, on the one hand, versus surveillance on the other, the members of the private club to which my family belongs will ultimately agree on the right balance. We’re not there just yet.

However, the greater community, as well as the nation, perhaps can benefit from the thoughtful musings of this tiniest club.

Here’s a list of just a few of the many questions I have proposed that need to be asked and answered, as well as disclosures made by a private club to members, in connection with surveillance deliberations.

1. Have the capabilities of the surveillance and information-gathering equipment been fully explained to members?

2. Who has access to the records created by the equipment and for what purposes?

3. How is the information and records accessed? Onsite, remotely or both?

4. What procedures exist to prevent unauthorized access to the information and records?

5. Who are the appropriate parties to respond to any concerns identified by the access persons through the use of surveillance and information-gathering systems?

However, surveillance is often confused with security and the equipment may have unknown technical capabilities well-beyond its intended usage. Even my cell phone is capable of way more than I’m comfortable with.

Source: forbes

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