The SmartSign Blog keeps its eye on many aspects of the security industry: technology, trespassing, and surveillance, to name a few. Along with our extensive collection of regulatory updates and news stories, our most popular contributions include posts about video surveillance, QR codes, and theft prevention. SmartSign’s security website provides a diverse range of security signs like Private Property, No Trespassing, Security Camera, Authorized Personnel Only, and Beware of the Dog signs. But not all of our signs have a bite to them. Our focus is on helping consumers, business owners, and employees stay alert, informed, and well-protected.
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Sharing respectfully: the fight against cyberbullying
Stanley Arnold, a man who once ran for president in the 1970s, said: “Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution.” Although his campaign ultimately fell flat, his point resonates beyond the 20th century. The proliferation of online bullying, in particular via social networks, is garnering serious attention, and requiring equally powerful […]
Attention shoppers: what you should know about video surveillance
While you’re buying this years gifts and gadgets, another kind of industry is at work all around you. Retail surveillance studies consumers, monitors employees, breaks up crime rings, and allows stores to share your data with one another (Via LoopZilla). It’s December, and the frenzy of the shopping season that started at midnight on Thanksgiving […]
Workplace bullying costs companies billions, wrecks victims’ health
35 percent of employees have been bullied in the workplace (via Glassdoor). Plebe. Newbie. Rookie. Punk. These words are flung around in the corporate world, as told by a former Goldman Sachs executive, Greg Smith. From experiences at the beginning of his time at the firm as an intern in 2000, Smith recounts how several […]
How to fight cyberbullying
Bullying has found a new home beyond the playground (via ThinkProgress). Nearly every American teenager has used social media, roughly 90% of 13- to 17-year-olds. Despite the benefits of online networking for kids — community engagement, enhanced communication and technical skills — constant connectivity poses real physical and emotional dangers. As kids become more plugged […]
Advances in facial recognition technology boost retail profits but may violate shoppers’ privacy
Retailers are capturing footage–including gender and body language–to fight theft and gather sales data (via Urgent Communications). Nowadays, you don’t have to be in Hollywood to star on a film reel. In 2011, retail stores used video surveillance to record the equivalent of 200 billion full-length high-definition movies, and not solely for theft prevention. Advances in […]
Rash of Recent Shootings Reopens Debate on Gun Laws
Perry Hall High in Maryland was rocked by a shotgun shooting on the first day of school (via The Baltimore Sun). September 4, 2012 — Following shootings in Colorado, Wisconsin, and at one high school in Maryland, legislators are forced to reexamine existing gun laws. Â At Maryland’s Perry Hill High, a shooting left a special […]
Your Friday Five: Breaking Signs, Lawnmower DUI’s, and Salon Formaldehyde
A sign breaks over the road during a windstorm. (Click for video, via OttawaCitizen). Friday, August 17, 2012 — Jay Mangat was traveling along a highway in Calgary, Canada, in a severe windstorm when he noticed a highway sign bobbing violently. As Mangat’s friend drove near the sign, he filmed the violent shocks to the support […]
