Having an agent standing there would be entirely acceptable. Use of surveillance equipment, especially the hidden kind, has always had a higher standard, even in public. So much so that one of the main ethical questions right now regards the use of publicly placed microphones that supposedly can only hear gunshots, in order to triangulate where those gunshots took place.<p>&gt; <i>Don&#x27;t respond or disagree, just vote it down</i><p>It&#x27;s faster to produce bullshit ideas than to respond to them civilly, as anyone who has an incompetent coworker can attest to. You aren&#x27;t owed anything.