The limits of a security team's (ir)responsibility

A question worth asking out loud:
is physical protection really the only priority for the security team of someone on the Forbes list?

The answer is obvious. A client’s safety is a compound thing, and approaching it in isolation from the protection of his reputation is criminally unprofessional.
 

Everyone involved understands that what happens in “Las Vegas” should stay there, with no chance of the toxic private content being poured onto the media fan at the moment that suits somebody else.

And is the security team unaware that, by letting not entirely conventional guests keep their mobile phones in a closed and (in theory) controlled space, it is effectively helping to collect material on its own principal?

Even schoolchildren have known for a long time that video and audio can be recorded from a mobile device without the knowledge of its so-called owner.

Yet, as we can see, not every security team has grasped this.

Carelessness — or is it a lack of professionalism? — can cost dearly. More than one person on that list has learned it the hard way: a private conversation recorded on somebody’s phone ends up in the foreign press, and the damage has nothing to do with physical security at all.

And to keep it from costing dearly, here is an affordable recipe for everyone on the Forbes list:
from time to time, put your own security to the test. You will sleep better and healthier.