(MENAFN - ValueWalk) Dan Switzen, 44, is likely to be viewed from several perspectives. The whose lawyer called him a 'very decent family man' after getting accused of 'unlawful surveillance' by police in upscale Westchester County, might have gotten bored filming Suzie Orman during a decade-long run. Or perhaps he tired of filming Tyler Mathisen and Brian Sullivan during segments of 'Power Lunch.' Instead, he turned his attention to the family's au pair and her friends changing while otherwise engaging digital surveillance to record private behaviors, recent court documents and published indicate.

While the overwhelming focus might be on the apparent sexual perversion — and it comes at a time on inappropriate sexual conduct — Switzen might be part of a larger societal trend going largely unreported in the mainstream: Increasingly sophisticated digital surveillance techniques being what was at one point considered private. Edward Snowden was the first point the trend was made public, with increasing use of electronic eavesdropping now extending to the bathroom.

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