November 2000 saw reports the security firm, ADT, taken to court by their staff who allege that their human rights have been breached. Their grievance centres around the fact that the security vehicles in which they travel (presumably when carrying cash and valuable items) are tracked, via radio or satellite.
They are not the only ones. In some areas of the country ambulances and other emergency vehicles are tracked to see where they are and to estimate times of arrival at urgent incidents. Quite probably other employers will be tracking their equipment, vehicles or staff. Do any of these activities have any implications for human rights?
The starting point must be to ascertain if the employer is a public authority. Are they a 'person certain of whose functions are of a public nature'. Ambulances and their staff undoubtedly do undertake public functions, but do security vehicles and their staff? If they are undertaking deliveries under a private contract between two businesses,
