That means employees can potentially tap into company databases via a laptop computer from right outside their former workplaces.
The consultancy uses a number of sources including public director and company databases, as well as luxury goods databases focusing specifically on art, private jet, prime property and yacht buyers.
Security researchers at Rapid7 looked at both and found that they were easy to compromise on company databases, and in the case of the watch, use to locate the wearer.
Mr. Sellers said the trial court could rely on statistics culled from company databases, which he said were more reliable than the evidence that might be presented in individualized hearings given the available information about particular pay and promotion decisions.
One aspect of the plan involves mining a huge amount of available data on mental disorders from public hospitals as well as pharmaceutical company databases; algorithms will then isolate revealing patterns and connections.
It was also one of three phone companies that embedded employees from 2003 to around 2007 in an F.B.I. facility, where they used company databases to provide quick analysis of call records.
