The Supreme Court has issued its opinion in National Aeronautics and Space Administration v. Nelson, a workplace privacy case involving background checks (previous coverage). Employees had argued that forms used by NASA violated their constitutional right to informational privacy. The court found for the government, holding that the background check questions at issue were reasonable…
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Cyberbully who forwarded lewd photos to student’s school gets 45 days
Associated Press reports on another cyberbullying or harassment case. This case really needs to be read by parents and discussed with their children. It also needs to be discussed in the schools as an opportunity to reinforce the importance of privacy – respect for one’s own and respect for others’. A cyberbully who forwarded explicit…
DHS: Political appointees were checking grammar of FOIA requests? I don’t think so.
Okay, now here’s a Congressional oversight review I can really get behind. Alan Fram of the Associated Press reports: A House committee has asked the Homeland Security Department to provide documents about an agency policy that required political appointees to review many Freedom of Information Act requests, according to a letter obtained Jan. 16 by…
ECHR upholds Campbell v MGN
Thanks to Inforrm’s Blog, I just found out about RPC Privacy Blog, a new privacy blog by the UK law firm of Reynolds Porter Chamberlain. What better way to introduce readers to them than by providing an excerpt from their coverage of today’s European Court of Human Rights decision in MGN v. United Kingdom, a…