Suppose the Targets were SMOKING ?
They argued on Monday that a section of the corporation's code of conduct that says Google employees should “speak up if you see something that you think isn’t right” provided ample justification for tracking and scrutinizing their colleagues.
Admittedly I am in Great Britain, but I have always assumed I could sit in a car outside fellow-workers' houses with high-powered binoculars and a parabolic listening dish and follow them in the spy-vehicle anytime they left.